{"author":"Edgar Allan Poe","author_id":"Edgar+Allan+Poe","total_quotes":176,"quotes":[{"text":"The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.","author":"Edgar Allan Poe","tags":["beautiful","beautiful woman "],"id":6658,"author_id":"Edgar+Allan+Poe"},{"text":"The grandeur that was Rome.","author":"Edgar Allan Poe","tags":["rome"],"id":8277,"author_id":"Edgar+Allan+Poe"},{"text":"In beauty of face no maiden ever equaled her. It was the radiance of an opium-dream - an airy and spirit-lifting vision more wildly divine than the fantasies which hovered about the slumbering souls of the daughters of Delos.","author":"Edgar Allan Poe","tags":["beauty","greek-mythology","youth"],"id":9968,"author_id":"Edgar+Allan+Poe"},{"text":"It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.","author":"Edgar Allan Poe","tags":["nature","general","superficial "],"id":10062,"author_id":"Edgar+Allan+Poe"},{"text":"Invisible things are the only realities.","author":"Edgar Allan Poe","tags":["humor","satire"],"id":10702,"author_id":"Edgar+Allan+Poe"},{"text":"Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made.","author":"Edgar Allan Poe","tags":["horror"],"id":13975,"author_id":"Edgar+Allan+Poe"},{"text":"A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.","author":"Edgar Allan Poe","tags":["short-stories","writing"],"id":16387,"author_id":"Edgar+Allan+Poe"},{"text":"Let him talk,' said Dupin, who had not thought it necessary to reply. 'Let him discourse; it will ease his conscience, I a satisfied with having defeated him in his own castle.","author":"Edgar Allan Poe","tags":["winning"],"id":17408,"author_id":"Edgar+Allan+Poe"},{"text":"Horrors of a nature most stern and most appalling would too frequently obtrude themselves upon my mind, and shake the innermost depths of my soul with the bare supposition of their possibility.","author":"Edgar Allan Poe","tags":["fear","thoughts"],"id":21783,"author_id":"Edgar+Allan+Poe"},{"text":"Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.Eagerly I wished the morrow; — vainly I had sought to borrow From my books surcease of sorrow — sorrow for the lost Lenore.","author":"Edgar Allan Poe","tags":["books","heartbreak","poetry","reading","words"],"id":25015,"author_id":"Edgar+Allan+Poe"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":176,"pages":18,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}