Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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Edgar Allan Poe Famous Quotes & Sayings
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It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
The pioneers and missionaries of religion have been the real cause of more trouble and war than all other classes of mankind.
The winters in the latitude of Sullivan's Island are seldom very severe, and in the fall of the year it is a rare event indeed
Even for those to whom life and death are equal jests. There are some things that are still held in respect.
Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
Children are never too tender to be whipped. Like tough beefsteaks, the more you beat them, the more tender they become.
For years your name never passed my lips, while my soul drank in, with a delirious thirst, all that was uttered in my presence respecting you ...
I went as a passenger, having no other inducement than a kind of nervous restlessness which haunted me as a fiend
In criticism, I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.
I have made no money. I am as poor now as ever I was in my life - except in hope, which is by no means bankable.
Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.
Actually, I do have doubts, all the time. Any thinking person does. There are so many sides to every question.
There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction.
There lives no man who at some period has not been tormented, for example, by an earnest desire to tantalize a listener by circumlocution.
In his opinion the powers of the intellect held intimate connection with the capabilities of the stomach.
Enough," he said; "the cough is a mere nothing; it will not kill me. I shall not die of a cough." "True - true," I replied;
Every moment of the night
Forever changing places
And they put out the star-light
With the breath from their pale faces
Forever changing places
And they put out the star-light
With the breath from their pale faces
It is with literature as with law or empire - an established name is an estate in tenure, or a throne in possession.
The look on his face frightened me terribly, but at the same time I was pleased not to be alone any more.
As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.
Mimes in the form of God on high mutter and mumble low and hither and tither fly, mere puppets they who come and go.
It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
[The daguerreotype] itself must undoubtedly be regarded as the most important, and perhaps the most extraordinary triumph of modern science.
Decorum
that bug-bear which deters so many from bliss until the opportunity for bliss has forever gone by.
that bug-bear which deters so many from bliss until the opportunity for bliss has forever gone by.
We gave him a hearty welcome, for there was nearly half as much of the entertaining as of the contemptible about the man..
Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day; or the agonies which are have their origins in ecstasies which might have been.
Thank Heaven! The crisis /The danger is past, and the lingering illness, is over at last /, and the fever called 'Living' is conquered at last.
Villains!' I shrieked. 'Dissemble no more! I admit the deed! Tear up the planks! Here, here! It is the beating of his hideous heart!
And then there stole into my fancy, like a rich musical note, the thought of what sweet rest there must be in the grave.
It is evident that we are hurrying onward to some exciting knowledge - some never-to-be-imparted secret, whose attainment is destruction.
In reading some books we occupy ourselves chiefly with the thoughts of the author; in perusing others, exclusively with our own.
It was well said of a certain German book that 'er lasst sich nicht lesen" - it does not permit itself to be read.
I call to mind flatness and dampness; and then all is madness - the madness of a memory which busies itself among forbidden things.
When the Hours flew brightly by And not a cloud obscured the sky, My soul, lest it should truant be, Thy grace did guide to thine and
In the Heaven's above, the angels, whispering to one another, can find, among their burning terms of love, none so devotional as that of 'Mother.