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I saw no heaven - but in her eyes.
— Edgar Allan Poe
Invisible things are the only realities.
— Edgar Allan Poe
Lord help my poor soul.
— Edgar Allan Poe
Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries
— Edgar Allan Poe
But the memory of past sorrowis it not present joy? — Edgar Allan Poe
And I fell violently on my face.
— Edgar Allan Poe
He knew that Hop-Frog was not fond of wine; for it excited the poor cripple almost to madness; and madness is no comfortable feeling.
— Edgar Allan Poe
On the morrow he will leave me as my hopes have flown before.
— Edgar Allan Poe
Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
— Edgar Allan Poe
Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!"Quoth the raven, "Nevermore. — Edgar Allan Poe
Children are never too tender to be whipped. Like tough beefsteaks, the more you beat them, the more tender they become.
— Edgar Allan Poe
... your writer of intensities must have very black ink, and a very big pen, with a very blunt nib.
— Edgar Allan Poe
In the marginalia ... we talk only to ourselves; we therefore talk freshly - boldly - originally - with abandonment - without conceit.
— Edgar Allan Poe
To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!
— Edgar Allan Poe
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 ...
— Edgar Allan Poe
All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
— Edgar Allan Poe
it has the force of a frame to a picture
— Edgar Allan Poe
That fitful strain of melancholy which will ever be found inseperable from the perfection of the beautiful.
— Edgar Allan Poe
The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls ...
— Edgar Allan Poe
I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
— Edgar Allan Poe
Other friends have flown before - On the morrow he will leave me, as my hopes have flown before." Quoth the raven, "Nevermore.
— Edgar Allan Poe
You will observe that the stories told are all about money-seekers, not about money-finders.
— Edgar Allan Poe
To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.
— Edgar Allan Poe
The viol, the violet, and the vine. Resignedly beneath the sky — Edgar Allan Poe
Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.
— Edgar Allan Poe
Human ingenuity could not construct a cipher which human ingenuity could not solve.
— Edgar Allan Poe
It would be mockery to call such dreariness heaven at all.
— Edgar Allan Poe
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.
— Edgar Allan Poe
Sometimes I'm terrified of my heart; of its constant hunger for whatever it is it wants. The way it stops and starts.
— Edgar Allan Poe
I hold that a long poem does not exist. I maintain that the phrase, "a long poem," is simply a flat contradiction in terms.
— Edgar Allan Poe
The secret of a poem, no less than a jest's prosperity, lies in the ear of him that hears it.
— Edgar Allan Poe
In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
— Edgar Allan Poe
Be nothing which thou art not
— Edgar Allan Poe
The truth is, I am heartily sick of this life & of the nineteenth century in general. (I am convinced that every thing is going wrong.)
— Edgar Allan Poe
In no affairs of mere prejudice, pro or con, do we deduce inferences with entire certainty, even from the most simple data.
— Edgar Allan Poe
Perched upon a bust of Pallas, just above my chamber door,- Perched, and sat, and nothing more.
— Edgar Allan Poe
If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
— Edgar Allan Poe
And rays of truth you cannot seeAre flashing thro' Eternity
— Edgar Allan Poe
A dirge for her the doubly dead in that she died so young.
— Edgar Allan Poe
A man's grammar, like Caesar's wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.
— Edgar Allan Poe
The best things in life make you sweaty.
— Edgar Allan Poe
With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
— Edgar Allan Poe
The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.
— Edgar Allan Poe
If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human sentiment ...
— Edgar Allan Poe
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
— Edgar Allan Poe
Marking a book is literally an experience of your differences or agreements with the author. It is the highest respect you can pay him.
— Edgar Allan Poe
Let me glimpse inside your velvet bones.
— Edgar Allan Poe
But it is a trait in the perversity of human nature to reject the obvious and the ready, for the far-distant and equivocal.
— Edgar Allan Poe
A fool, for example, thinks Shakespeare a great poet ... yet the fool has never read Shakespeare.
— Edgar Allan Poe
The raven of Edgar Allan Poe has a halo that he extinguishes from time to time("Spanish Generosity") — Max Jacob
It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain; but once conceived, it haunted me day and night.
— Edgar Allan Poe
For my own part, I have never had a thought which I could not set down in words, with even more distinctness than that with which I conceived it.
— Edgar Allan Poe
Beauty is the sole legitimate province of the poem.
— Edgar Allan Poe
Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance.
— Edgar Allan Poe
to do wrong for the wrong's sake only
— Edgar Allan Poe
It was well said of a certain German book that 'er lasst sich nicht lesen" - it does not permit itself to be read.
— Edgar Allan Poe
Grammar is the analysis of language.
— Edgar Allan Poe
But Psyche uplifting her finger said: Sadly this star I mistrust
— Edgar Allan Poe
I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it.
— Edgar Allan Poe
Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
— Edgar Allan Poe
Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allan Poe.
— John Lennon
The plots of God are perfect. The Universe is a plot of God.
— Edgar Allan Poe
Trust to the fickle star within.
— Edgar Allan Poe
He must be theory-mad beyond redemption who ... shall ... persist in attempting to reconcile the obstinate oils and waters of Poetry and Truth.
— Edgar Allan Poe
I call to mind flatness and dampness; and then all is madness - the madness of a memory which busies itself among forbidden things.
— Edgar Allan Poe
It was many and many a year ago, in a kingdom by the sea ...
— Edgar Allan Poe
Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
— Edgar Allan Poe
Once upon a midnight dreary
— Edgar Allan Poe
Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore.
— Edgar Allan Poe
I'm a writer. Therefore, I am not sane.
— Edgar Allan Poe
I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind
— Edgar Allan Poe
And then there stole into my fancy, like a rich musical note, the thought of what sweet rest there must be in the grave.
— Edgar Allan Poe
Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded ...
— Edgar Allan Poe
If in many of my productions terror has been the thesis, I maintain that terror is not of Germany, but of the soul.
— Edgar Allan Poe
It is a happiness to wonder; it is a happiness to dream. — Edgar Allan Poe
It was my choice or chance or curse To adopt the cause for better or worse And with my worldly goods & wit And soul & body worship it -
— Edgar Allan Poe
It was all Mrs. Waddington could do to refrain from hurling a bust of Edgar Allan Poe at her head.
— P.G. Wodehouse
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— Edgar Allan Poe
Villains!' I shrieked. 'Dissemble no more! I admit the deed! Tear up the planks! Here, here! It is the beating of his hideous heart!
— Edgar Allan Poe
His heart is a suspended lute; As soon as you touch it, it resonates.
— Edgar Allan Poe
Have been sufficient to establish its real character. Indeed, however
— Edgar Allan Poe
If I'm too old to be Emo, how do you account for the very Emo and very old Edgar Allan Poe? Checkmate!
— John Green
No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce.
— H.P. Lovecraft
It is evident that we are hurrying onward to some exciting knowledge - some never-to-be-imparted secret, whose attainment is destruction.
— Edgar Allan Poe
And boyhood is a summer sun / Whose waning is the dreariest one/ For all we live to know is known, / And all we seek to keep hath flown
— Edgar Allan Poe
I love me a good sheep.
— Edgar Allan Poe
Long suffering had nearly annihilated all my ordinary powers of mind. I was an imbecile - an idiot.
— Edgar Allan Poe
I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.
— Edgar Allan Poe
For passion must, with youth, expire.
— Edgar Allan Poe
