Edgar Allan Poe quotes - page 6

A large mirror,-so at first it seemed to me in my confusion-now stood where none had been perceptible before; and, as I stepped up to it in extremity of terror, mine own image, but with features all pale and dabbled in blood, advanced to meet me with a feeble and tottering gait. (Edgar Allan Poe)
For the love of God Montresor! View quote
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The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire. View quote
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The happiest day - the happiest hour My sear'd and blighted heart hath known, The highest hope of pride and power, I feel hath flown. View quote
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Come! let the burial rite be read - the funeral song be sung! - An anthem for the queenliest dead that ever died so young - A dirge for her the doubly dead in that she died so young. View quote
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In the greenest of our valleys By good angels tenanted, Once a fair and stately palace - Radiant palace - reared its head. View quote
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While, like a ghastly rapid river, Through the pale door A hideous throng rush out forever And laugh - but smile no more. View quote
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Gaily bedight, A gallant knight, In sunshine and in shadow, Had journeyed long, Singing a song, In search of Eldorado. View quote
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O God! Can I not save One from the pitiless wave? Is all that we see or seem But a dream within a dream? View quote
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If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human sentiment, the opportunity is his own -- the road to immortal renown lies straight, open, and unencumbered before him. All that he has to do is to write and publish a very little book. Its title should be simple -- a few plain words -- ''My Heart Laid Bare.'' But -- this little book must be true to its title. View quote
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Sorrow for the lost Lenore - For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore - Nameless here for evermore. (Edgar Allan Poe)
Prophet!" said I, "thing of evil! - prophet still, if bird or devil! View quote
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Get thee back into the tempest and the Night's Plutonian shore! Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken! Leave my loneliness unbroken! - quit the bust above my door! Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!" Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore. View quote
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In her sepulcher there by the sea - In her tomb by the sounding sea. View quote
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There neither exists nor can exist any work more thoroughly dignified - more supremely noble than this very poem - this poem per se - this poem which is a poem and nothing more - this poem written solely for the poem's sake. View quote
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It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea, That a maiden there lived whom you may know By the name of ANNABEL LEE;-- And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me. View quote
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Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart - one of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give direction to the character of Man. View quote
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It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma ... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application,resolve. View quote
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I design to speak of the Physical, Metaphysical and Mathematical - of the Material and Spiritual Universe: - of its Essence, its Origin, its Creation, its Present Condition and its Destiny. View quote
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The history of human knowledge has so uninterruptedly shown that to collateral, or incidental, or accidental events we are indebted for the most numerous and most valuable discoveries, that it has at length become necessary, in any prospective view of improvement, to make not only large, but the largest allowances for inventions that shall arise by chance, and quite out of the range of ordinary expectation. It is no longer philosophical to base, upon what has been, a vision of what is to be. Accident is admitted as a portion of the substructure. We make chance a matter of absolute calculation. We subject the unlooked for and unimagined, to the mathematical formulae of the schools. View quote
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A poem, in my opinion, is opposed to a work of science by having, for its immediate object, pleasure, not truth; to romance, by having for ­its object an indefinite instead of a definite pleasure, being a poem only so far as this object is attained; romance presenting perceptible images with definite, poetry with indefinite sensations, to which end music is an essential, since the comprehension of sweet sound is our most indefinite conception. Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music without the idea is simply music; the idea without the music is prose from its very definitiveness. (Edgar Allan Poe)
...what he called 'intuition' was but the conviction resulting from deductions or inductions of which the processes were so shadowy as to have escaped his consciousness, eluded his reason, or bidden defiance to his capacity of expression... View quote
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I could not awaken My heart to joy at the same tone - And all I lov'd - I lov'd alone -. View quote
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Never to suffer would have been never to have been blessed. View quote
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Men have called me mad but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligencewhether much that is gloriouswhether all that is profounddoes not spring from disease of thoughtfrom moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect. View quote
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