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Famous Quotes by Edgar Allan Poe

• The usual derivation of the word Metaphysics is not to be sustained ... the science is supposed... More
• Tell a scoundrel, three or four times a day, that he is the pink of probity, and you make him at... More
• What I here propound is true: ... if by any means it be now trodden down so that it die, it will... More
• If in many of my productions terror has been the thesis, I maintain that terror is not of... More
• As a viewed myself in a fragment of looking-glass..., I was so impressed with a sense of vague... More
• He made no resistance whatever, and was stabbed in the back.... I must not dwell upon the fearful... More
• For the bright side of the painting I had a limited sympathy. My visions were of shipwreck and... More
• I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable... More
• Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so. More
• Barnaby, the idiot, is the murderer’s own son. More
• In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this... More
• The Bostonians are really, as a race, far inferior in point of anything beyond mere intellect to... More
• Is all that we see or seem
  But a dream within a dream? More
• All that we see or seem
  Is but a dream within a dream. More
• I stand amid the roar
  Of a surf-tormented shore,
  And I hold within my hand
  Grains of... More
• There is not a more disgusting spectacle under the sun than our subserviency to British... More
• the wind came out of the cloud chilling
  And killing my Annabel Lee. More
• And so all the night-tide, I lie down by the side
  Of my darling, my darling, my life and my... More
• I was a child and she was a child,
  In this kingdom by the sea;
  But we loved with a love... More
• It was many and many a year ago,
  In a kingdom by the sea,
  That a maiden there lived whom... More
• She was a child and I was a child,
  In this kingdom by the sea,
  But we loved with a love... More
• Their hotels are bad. Their pumpkin pies are delicious. Their poetry is not so good. More
• By a route obscure and lonely,
  Haunted by ill angels only,
  Where an eidolon, named... More
• There the traveler meets, aghast,
  Sheeted memories of the past—
  Shrouded forms that... More
• “Over the mountains
  Of the moon,
  Down the valley of the shadow,
  Ride, boldly... More
• Gaily bedight,
  A gallant knight,
  In sunshine and in shadow,
  Had journeyed... More
• If I venture to displace ... the microscopical speck of dust... on the point of my finger,... I... More
• “We should have to be God ourselves!”MWith a phrase so startling as this yet ringing in my... More
• As an individual, I myself feel impelled to fancy ... a limitless succession of Universes....... More
• If the propositions of this Discourse are tenable, the “state of progressive collapse” is... More
• In the Original Unity of the First Thing lies the Secondary Cause of All Things, with the Germ of... More
• It glows with the light
  Of the love of my Annie—
  With the thought of the light
  Of... More
• When the light was extinguished,
  She covered me warm,
  And she prayed to the angels
  To... More
• Thank Heaven! the crisis —
  The danger, is past,
  And the lingering illness,
  Is over... More
• “As for myself, I am simply Hop-Frog, the jester—and this is my last jest.”... The Work of... More
• Yes, Heaven is thine; but this
  Is a world of sweets and sours;
  Our flowers are... More
• In Heaven a spirit doth dwell
  “Whose heart-strings are a lute;”
  None sing so wildly... More
• a bolder note than this might swell
  From my lyre within the sky. More
• Believe me, there exists no such dilemma as that in which a gentleman is placed when he is forced... More
• Ah, broken is the golden bowl! the spirit flown forever!
  Let the bell toll!—a saintly soul... More
• “Avaunt! to-night my heart is light. No dirge will I upraise.
  “But waft the angel on her... More
• The painter stood entranced before the work which he had wrought;... he grew tremulous and ...... More
• While the angels, all pallid and wan,
  Uprising, unveiling, affirm
  That the play is the... More
• The mimes become its food,
  And seraphs sob at vermin fangs
  In human gore imbued. More
• But see, amid the mimic rout
  A crawling shape intrude! More
• We now demand the light artillery of the intellect; we need the curt, the condensed, the pointed,... More
• A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this—that offences against Charity are about... More
• The next work of Carlyle will be entitled “Bow-Wow,” and the title-page will have a motto... More
• The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led. More
• After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the... More
• There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the... More
• To be thoroughly conversant with a Man’s heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped... More
• To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness. More
• Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it “the reproduction of... More
• I never can hear a crowd of people singing and gesticulating, all together, at an Italian opera,... More
• The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood.... For the... More
• That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward. More
• I have proceeded ... to prevent the lapse from ... the point of blending between wakefulness and... More
• There is ... a class of fancies, of exquisite delicacy, which are not thoughts, and to which, as... More
• To revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human... More
• What can be more soothing, at once to a man’s Pride, and to his Conscience, than the conviction... More
• To see distinctly the machinery—the wheels and pinions—of any work of Art is, unquestionably,... More
• In the tale proper—where there is no space for development of character or for great profusion... More
• It is the curse of a certain order of mind, that it can never rest satisfied with the... More
• The unity of effect or impression is a point of the greatest importance. It is clear, moreover,... More
• Romance, who loves to nod and sing,
  With drowsy head and folded wing, More
• Taught me my alphabet to say,
  To lisp my very earliest word, More
• Of late, eternal Condor years
  So shake the very Heaven on high
  With tumult as they... More
• The want of an international Copy-Right Law, by rendering it nearly impossible to obtain anything... More
• Hast thou not dragged Diana from her car,
  And driven the hamadryad from the wood
  To seek... More
• Science! true daughter of old Time thou art!
  Who alterest all things with thy peering... More
• If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human... More
• This wild star—it is now three centuries since, with clasped hands, and with streaming eyes,...... More
• And all my days are trances,
  And all my nightly dreams
  Are where thy dark eye... More
• While the stars that oversprinkle
  All the heavens, seem to twinkle
  With a crystalline... More
• Hear the sledges with the bells—
  Silver bells! More
• There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to... More
• The waves have now a redder glow—
  The hours are breathing faint and low—
  And when,... More
• Lo! Death has reared himself a throne
  In a strange city lying alone
  Far down within the... More
• Resignedly beneath the sky
  The melancholy waters lie.
  So blend the turrets and shadows... More
• No sooner had I glanced at this letter, than I concluded it to be that of which I was in search.... More
• Semi-Saracenic architecture, sustaining itself as if by miracle in mid air; glittering in the red... More
• Banners yellow, glorious, golden,
  On its roof did float and flow More
• But evil things, in robes of sorrow,
  Assailed the monarch’s high estate; More
• In the greenest of our valleys
  By good angels tenanted,
  Once a fair and stately... More
• like a ghastly rapid river,
  Through the pale door
  A hideous throng rush out... More
• Nor will this overwhelming tendency to do wrong for wrong’s sake, admit of analysis, or... More
• There might be a class of beings, human once, but now to humanity invisible, for whose scrutiny,... More
• Think ... before the words—the vows are spoken, which put yet another terrible bar between... More
• In writing these Tales ... at long intervals, I have kept the book-unity always in mind ... with... More
• My love—my faith—should instil into your bosom a praeternatural calm. You would rest from... More
• The history of all Magazines shows plainly that those which have attained celebrity were indebted... More
• Imperceptibly the love of these dischords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger. More
• During these fits of absolute unconsciousness I drank, God only knows how often or how much. As a... More
• You need not attempt to shake off or to banter off Romance. It is an evil you will never get rid... More
• Men die nightly in their beds, wringing the hands of ghostly confessors ... on account of the... More
• The prince had provided all the appliances of pleasure ...: buffoons,... improvisatori,...... More
• As the strong man exults in his physical ability, delighting in such exercises as call his... More
• It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative... More
• The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but... More

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