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The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.

The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.

Edgar Allan Poe
Time, Imagination, Noses
1849 'Marginalia', in the Southern Literary Messenger, Jul.

There was an iciness, a sinking, a sickening of the heart - an unredeemed dreariness of thought which no goading of the imagination could torture into aught of the sublime

Edgar Allan Poe
Heart, Imagination, Sublime
1839 'The Fall of the House of Usher', in the Gentleman's Magazine, Sep.

It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.

Edgar Allan Poe
Imagination, Literature, Facts
1841 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue', in the Gentleman's Magazine, Apr.

In the one instance, the dreamerloses sight of this object in a wilderness of deductions and suggestionsuntilhe finds the incitamentum, or first cause of his musings,... forgotten. In my case, the primary object was invariably frivolous, although assuming, through the medium of my distempered vision, a refracted and unreal importance.

Edgar Allan Poe
Sight, Imagination, Vision

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