| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 44682 |
| QUOTATION: | There is ... a class of fancies, of exquisite delicacy, which are not thoughts, and to which, as yet, I have found it absolutely impossible to adapt language.... Now, so entire is my faith in the power of words, that at times, I have believed it possible to embody even the evanescence of fancies such as I have attempted to describe. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849), U.S. author. “Marginalia 150,” Graham’s American Monthly Magazine of Literature and Art (1846).
Entranced by the “ineffable.” |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Poe Collection. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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