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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 sorrow
is it not present joy? — Edgar Allan Poe

I briefly considered doing Edgar Allan Poe and just swearing a lot. — Andy Richter

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

Think of my rants and posts as they would come from Edgar, Vincent, and Dali. — Solange Nicole

Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!"
Quoth the raven, "Nevermore. — Edgar Allan Poe

The agony of my soul found vent in one loud, long and final scream of despair. — 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

Indeed, there is an eloquence in true enthusiasm that is not to be doubted. — 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 see
Are 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

The past is a pebble in my shoe. — 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

To speak algebraically, Mr. M. is execrable, but Mr. G. is (x + 1)- ecrable. — 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

I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth.I heard many things in hell. — 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

He who pleases is of more importance to his fellow man than he who instructs. — 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

A poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul. — 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

If [a short story author's] very initial sentence tend not to the out bringing of this effect, then he has failed in his first step. — Edgar Allan Poe

Man is an animal that diddles, and there is no animal that diddles but man. — 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

In reading some books we occupy ourselves chiefly with the thoughts of the author; in perusing others, exclusively with our own. — Edgar Allan Poe