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Edgar Allan Poe
(19 Jan 1809 - 7 Oct 1849)
American writer and poet.
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Science Quotes by Edgar Allan Poe (4)
... —ev'n with us the breath
Of Science dims the mirror of our joy...
Of Science dims the mirror of our joy...
— Edgar Allan Poe
'Al Aaraaf', Poems of Edgar Allan Poe (1917), 45.
A poem in my opinion, is opposed to a work of science by having for its immediate object, pleasure, not truth.
— Edgar Allan Poe
'Letter to B——— ———', in Southern Literary Messenger (Jul 1836). Quoted in Poems of Edgar Allan Poe (1917), 169, and Appendix, 311. According to different commentators, B——— may be merely a fictional character, or Bulwer-Lyton, or the publisher Elam Bliss.
See also: | Immediate (2) | Object (13) | Opinion (36) | Pleasure (18) | Poem (51) | Science (444) | Truth (241)
Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of intelligence.
— Edgar Allan Poe
In Giancarlo Livraghi, The Power of Stupidity (2009), 179, but without further citation. Please contact Webmaster if you know a primary source.
Science! true daughter of old Time thou art!
Who alterest all things with thy peering eyes.
Why preyest thou thus upon the poet's heart,
Vulture,... ?
Who alterest all things with thy peering eyes.
Why preyest thou thus upon the poet's heart,
Vulture,... ?
— Edgar Allan Poe
Sonnet, 'To Science' (1829), Saturday Evening Post (11 Sep 1830). In Poems of Edgar Allan Poe (1917), 33, and Notes, 169.
