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From childhood's hour I have not beenAs others were--I have not seenAs others saw.


Edgar Allan Poe

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GILES FODEN From childhood's hour I have not been
As others were - I have not seen
As others saw - I c...
EDGAR ALLAN POE I briefly considered doing Edgar Allan Poe and just swearing a lot.
ANDY RICHTER From childhood's hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not a...
EDGAR ALLAN POE Edgar Allan Poe and Bram Stoker: A Meeting of the Macabre.
EDGAR ALLAN POE Long suffering had nearly annihilated all my ordinary powers of mind. I was an imbecile—an idiot.
EDGAR ALLAN POE The sky was the color of Edgar Allan Poe's pajamas.
TOM ROBBINS I was warped early by Ray Bradbury and Edgar Allan Poe. I was very fond of Franz Kafka.
MARGARET ATWOOD Quoth the raven nevermore.
EDGAR ALLAN POE From childhood's hour I have not been As others were; I have not seen As others saw; I could not bri...
EDGAR ALLAN POE I've been influenced by poets as diverse as Dylan Thomas, Lewis Carroll, and Edgar Allan Poe.
JACK PRELUTSKY From childhood’s hour I have not been
As others were—I have not seen
As others saw—I...
EDGAR ALLAN POE Sometimes I’m terrified of my heart; of its constant hunger for whatever it is it wants. The way i...
POE Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftie...
EDGAR ALLAN POE The past is a pebble in my shoe.
POE No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar ...
H. P. LOVECRAFT Hey," said Shadow. "Huginn or Muninn, or whoever you are."
The bird turned, head tipped, suspi...
NEIL GAIMAN The End of the Raven

"On a night quite unenchanting, when the rain was downward sl...
HENRY N. BEARD I saw thee once - only once - years ago:
I must not say how many - but not many.
It was a ...
EDGAR ALLAN POE I've named a couple things after Edgar Allan Poe: the cat, and my garden upstate, where I only p...
HILARIE BURTON Edgar Allan Poe, an earlier UVA student, once complained in a letter that his stepfather spoke to hi...
MATTHEW PEARL I was cautious in what I said before the young lady; for I could not be sure that she was sane; and,...
EDGAR ALLAN POE The modern story begun, one might say, with Edgar Allan Poe, which proceeds inexorably, like a machi...
JULIO CORTáZAR Edgar Allan Poe, I think he's a brilliant poet. I was actually given a copy of his work when I w...
DOVE CAMERON If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe d...
QUENTIN CRISP A woman being never at a loss... the devil always sticks by them.
GEORGE GORDON BYRON All that you see or seem, is but a dream within a dream. They who dream by day are cognizant of many...
EDGAR ALLAN POE I tend to look way back for my inspiration: H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allen Poe.
DREW DAYWALT From the dim regions beyond the mountains at the upper end of our encircled domain, there crept out ...
EDGAR ALLAN POE I have talked with great men, and I do not see how they differ from others.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN The sky was the color of Edgar Allan Poe's pajamas.
TOM ROBBINS At midnight, in the month of June, I stand beneath the mystic moon.
EDGAR ALLAN POE If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
HAL ABELSON If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
HAL ABELSON If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
HAROLD ABELSON I would say they were probably influenced by others, but not necessarily directed specifically by ot...
ANTONIO TAGUBA If I have not seen as far as others, it is because there were giants standing on my shoulders.
HAROLD ABELSON Literature has been part of my life for as long as I can remember. I can't think back before a t...
ALEXANDRA ADORNETTO I would just as soon not have to run against Jim Edgar. Jim Edgar occupies much of the same space th...
RON GIDWITZ I am not disposed to complain that I have planted and others have gathered the fruits.
CHARLES GOODYEAR IF YOU CAN'T THANK GOD FOR WHAT YOU HAVE, THANK HIM FOR WHAT YOU HAVE ESCAPED!
NOT SURE i believe in love. lust. sex. romance. i don't want everything to add up to the perfect equation...i...
NOT REAL A conservative is a liberal who just got mugged and a liberal is a conservative who just got arreste...
NOT SURE If you are constantly looking in the rear view mirror, how will you ever see what is in front of you...
NOT SURE I am convinced that "all ladies are not the same". Some have pretty faces, others have beautiful cha...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Humility, I have learned, must never be confused with meekness. Humility is being open to the ideas ...
SIMON SINEK My English teachers gave me a copy of Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale' when I left hig...
SAMANTHA SHANNON Do not demand from others what you would not expect of yourself.
DANIEL MELGAçO Ah! were I sever'd from thy side, Where were thy friend and who my guide? Years have not seen...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) We all learn a lot from successful people, people who care and make us feel good, yet we learn much ...
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE The thing I have the most problem with is consistency. We saw it already. The equipment isn't consis...
DAVID AEBISCHER I have learned to delegate.
GWEN STEFANI Faith, I ran when I saw others run.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If you are not different from others very distinctively, you are not different from others at all!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW I have to live for others and not for myself; that's middle class morality
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Where others saw gloom, I saw light or lit a candle.
G.R. GOPINATH Whenever there has been talk of exterminating rats, others, who were not rats, have been exterminate...
GUNTER GRASS In order to surpass others we have to do what others are not doing
SUNDAY ADELAJA From childhood's hour I have not been
As others were; I have not seen
As others saw; I cou...
EDGAR ALLAN POE Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites.
LORD ACTON Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favorites
JOHN EMERICH EDWARD DALBERG ACTON I have learned to be molded by God into the person He wants. I want to help and encourage others to ...
KIM ALEXIS Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.
PABLO PICASSO I have quite a strong sense of wanting to sort of, wanting to help others. I'm not claiming I...
JOHN KEY Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain pea...
BUDDHA Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace ...
BUDDHA I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW The book itself was part of a set, but it was signed by Edgar Allen Poe and dated 1829,
DAVID BLOOM If I ever conceive any original idea, it will be because I have been abnormally prone to confuse ide...
KENNETH J.W. CRAIK Existem cordas, nos corações dos mais indiferentes, que não podem ser tocadas sem emoção.
EDGAR ALLAN POE Epilepsy is a disease in the shadows. Patients are often reluctant to admit their condition - even t...
LYNDA RESNICK The people who drive us nuts often change us most.
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE If others have sinned you need not mention it
SOURCE UNKNOWN I have learned that I am a one-woman man.
ALEJANDRO GONZALEZ INARRITU It seems the great advantage of people who annoy us is motivation to engage in reflection.
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE I saw what government programs were and how they were executed. In some cases, they were executed be...
GWYNNE SHOTWELL I mean there are many people who have endorsed me that I agree with on some things and not others.
CARLY FIORINA I am not good with others.
GARY SHTEYNGART It's hypocritical. The industry saw the warning signs. Others saw the warning signs. Something shoul...
CARY COOPER I think you get great strength from hearing from others and knowing that you're not by yourself.
LANA THOMPSON Residents told us that some people had died and others were injured but we do not have any figures y...
MICHEL BONNARDEAUX Imagine how many suicide victims would still be with us, if only the right person said the right thi...
WAYNE GERARD TROTMAN Every day, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I a...
DALAI LAMA XIV Every day, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I a...
THE DALAI LAMA Because you have drowned others, you were drowned…
RABBI HILLEL Do not do to others what you would not have them do to you.
RABBI HILLEL I was brought up to believe that how I saw myself was more important than how others saw me.
ANWAR EL-SADAT instead of wondering why you are not like the others, ask your self why you have to be like others?
KARIM FDHILA If you don't love yourself, you cannot love others. You will not be able to love others. If you have...
DALAI LAMA In vain have you acquired knowledge if you have not imparted it to others.
DEUTERONOMY RABBAH I saw the walls of my patio and three others flying past me, ... I had to duck down to keep from bei...
DOROTHY PATTERSON Have you not sometimes seen happiness? Yes, the happiness of others
HOUSSAYE From their point of view, I had gone too far. I had to disappear. That is to say, if the Algerian ar...
AHMED BEN BELLA From whichever side I start, I think I am in an old place where others have been before me.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Respect from others is gained,not born with.
XIAO PAN In avoiding the appearance of evil, I am not sure but I have sometimes unnecessarily deprived myself...
RUTHERFORD B. HAYES Whatever happens to me, I will have lived a thousand normal lives by what I might add to others not ...
DANIEL KEYES I saw a bank that said "24 Hour Banking," but I don't have that much time.
STEVEN WRIGHT I saw a bank that said "24 Hour Banking", but I don't have that much time
STEPHEN WRIGHT

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That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
EDGAR ALLAN POE Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them...
EDGAR ALLAN POE Lord, help my poor soul.
EDGAR ALLAN POE Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.
EDGAR ALLAN POE Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
EDGAR ALLAN POE The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.
EDGAR ALLAN POE The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
EDGAR ALLAN POE In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-n...
EDGAR ALLAN POE In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose ...
EDGAR ALLAN POE It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superfi...
EDGAR ALLAN POE I need scarcely observe that a poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the...
EDGAR ALLAN POE A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the o...
EDGAR ALLAN POE The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which i...
EDGAR ALLAN POE I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.
EDGAR ALLAN POE Thank Heaven! the crisis --The danger, is past, and the lingering illness, is over at last --, and t...
EDGAR ALLAN POE That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I...
EDGAR ALLAN POE The true genius shudders at incompleteness — imperfection — and usually prefers silence to sayin...
EDGAR ALLAN POE From childhood's hour I have not been
As others were; I have not seen
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EDGAR ALLAN POE Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftie...
EDGAR ALLAN POE I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
EDGAR ALLAN POE There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.
EDGAR ALLAN POE Sleep, those little slices of death — how I loathe them.
EDGAR ALLAN POE Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
EDGAR ALLAN POE Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious v...
EDGAR ALLAN POE I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not be...
EDGAR ALLAN POE I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it.
EDGAR ALLAN POE I am a writer. Therefore. I am not sane.
EDGAR ALLAN POE Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.
EDGAR ALLAN POE Yet mad I am not...and very surely do I not dream.
EDGAR ALLAN POE All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.
EDGAR ALLAN POE From childhood's hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not a...
EDGAR ALLAN POE We loved with a love that was more than love.
EDGAR ALLAN POE Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance.
EDGAR ALLAN POE I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect...
EDGAR ALLAN POE We now demand the light artillery of the intellect; we need the curt, the condensed, the pointed, th...
EDGAR ALLAN POE To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.
EDGAR ALLAN POE There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the...
EDGAR ALLAN POE Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow--
You are no...
EDGAR ALLAN POE In the one instance, the dreamer, or enthusiast, being interested by an object usually not frivolous...
EDGAR ALLAN POE Deep into the darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing,
Doubting, dreaming dreams...
EDGAR ALLAN POE I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence.
EDGAR ALLAN POE A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this -- that offences against Charity are about the ...
EDGAR ALLAN POE The object, Truth, or the satisfaction of the intellect, and the object, Passion, or the excitement ...
EDGAR ALLAN POE After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics o...
EDGAR ALLAN POE To be thoroughly conversant with a man's heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volu...
EDGAR ALLAN POE Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
EDGAR ALLAN POE If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thou...
EDGAR ALLAN POE A lunatic may be
EDGAR ALLAN POE Odors have an altogether peculiar force, in affecting us through association; a force differing esse...
EDGAR ALLAN POE There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the ca...
EDGAR ALLAN POE Of a water that flows,
With a lullaby sound,
From a spring but a very few
Feet under ground...
EDGAR ALLAN POE I never can hear a crowd of people singing and gesticulating, all together, at an Italian opera, wit...
EDGAR ALLAN POE The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of...
EDGAR ALLAN POE Believe me, there exists no such dilemma as that in which a gentleman is placed when he is forced to...
EDGAR ALLAN POE From childhood's hour I have not been As others were; I have not seen As others saw; I could not bri...
EDGAR ALLAN POE Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
EDGAR ALLAN POE The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
EDGAR ALLAN POE All that you see or seem, is but a dream within a dream. They who dream by day are cognizant of many...
EDGAR ALLAN POE I have great faith in fools--self-confidence my friends call it.
EDGAR ALLAN POE Ghastly, grim, and ancient Raven, wandering from the Nightly shore,-- Tell me what thy lordly nam...
EDGAR ALLAN POE And still the Raven, never flitting, Still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of ...
EDGAR ALLAN POE The murmur that springs From the growing of grass.
EDGAR ALLAN POE Hear the mellow wedding bells, Golden bells! What a world of happiness their harmony foretells...
EDGAR ALLAN POE Hear the sledges with the bells, Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretell...
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EDGAR ALLAN POE Reality is the #1 cause of insanity among those who are in contact with it
EDGAR ALLAN POE Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow-- You are not wron...
EDGAR ALLAN POE Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term art, I should call it "the Reproduction of what t...
EDGAR ALLAN POE On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face, Thy naiad airs have ...
EDGAR ALLAN POE I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
EDGAR ALLAN POE There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute which goes directly to the ...
EDGAR ALLAN POE Filled with mingled cream and amber I will drain that glass again. Such hilarious visions clamber Th...
EDGAR ALLAN POE Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of wh...
EDGAR ALLAN POE I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect...
EDGAR ALLAN POE With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
EDGAR ALLAN POE I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.
EDGAR ALLAN POE All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
EDGAR ALLAN POE I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
EDGAR ALLAN POE Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
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 All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
EDGAR ALLAN POE Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
EDGAR ALLAN POE The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
EDGAR ALLAN POE The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the o...
EDGAR ALLAN POE Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams n...
EDGAR ALLAN POE Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
EDGAR ALLAN POE Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
EDGAR ALLAN POE It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think ...
EDGAR ALLAN POE I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.
EDGAR ALLAN POE They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
EDGAR ALLAN POE I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster...
EDGAR ALLAN POE Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portio...
EDGAR ALLAN POE The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth ma...
EDGAR ALLAN POE I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
EDGAR ALLAN POE Deep in earth my love is lying
And I must weep alone.
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EDGAR ALLAN POE It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom y...
EDGAR ALLAN POE It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never o...
EDGAR ALLAN POE It is more than probable that I am not understood; but I fear, indeed, that it is in no manner possi...
EDGAR ALLAN POE The best things in life make you sweaty.
EDGAR ALLAN POE It is a happiness to wonder; -- it is a happiness to dream.
EDGAR ALLAN POE There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible...
EDGAR ALLAN POE It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may ...
EDGAR ALLAN POE Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impul...
EDGAR ALLAN POE Scorching my seared heart with a pain, not hell shall make me fear again.
EDGAR ALLAN POE Depend upon it, after all, Thomas, Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about...
EDGAR ALLAN POE Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.
EDGAR ALLAN POE Sleep, those little slices of death; Oh how I loathe them.
EDGAR ALLAN POE Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
EDGAR ALLAN POE Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it the reproduction of what th...
EDGAR ALLAN POE Even in the grave, all is not lost.
EDGAR ALLAN POE And the silken, sad, uncertain rustling of each purple curtain
Thrilled me- filled me with fan...
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 The giant will succumbed to a power more stern.
EDGAR ALLAN POE Prophet!' said I, 'thing of evil! - prophet still, it bird or devil!
EDGAR ALLAN POE Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter, In there stepped a stately Raven...
EDGAR ALLAN POE Prophet!” said I, “thing of evil! — prophet still, if bird or devil! —
EDGAR ALLAN POE Once upon a midnight dreary, while
EDGAR ALLAN POE Quoth the raven nevermore.
EDGAR ALLAN POE Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume...
EDGAR ALLAN POE And then there are times, Mr. Osgood, when one must just let go.” His gaze softened. “I believe,...
EDGAR ALLAN POE But the raven, sitting lonely on the placid bust, spoke only That one word, as if his soul in that o...
EDGAR ALLAN POE Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou,” I said, “art sure no craven, Ghastly grim and ancie...
EDGAR ALLAN POE Prophet!” said I, “thing of evil! — prophet still, if bird or devil! — Whether Tempter sen...
EDGAR ALLAN POE Leave my loneliness unbroken!—quit the bust above my door!
EDGAR ALLAN POE Lenore — For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore — Nameless
EDGAR ALLAN POE And the raven quote, nevermore.
EDGAR ALLAN POE Actually, I do have doubts, all the time. Any thinking person does. There are so many sides to every...
EDGAR ALLAN POE Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend!” I shrieked, upstarting—
“Get thee back ...
EDGAR ALLAN POE Darkness there, and nothing more.
EDGAR ALLAN POE Tell me truly, I implore-- Is there-- is there balm in Gilead?--tell me--tell me, I implore!
EDGAR ALLAN POE Other friends have flown before — On the morrow he will leave me, as my hopes have flown before.�...
EDGAR ALLAN POE Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing,
Doubting, dreaming drea...
EDGAR ALLAN POE Here I opened wide the door;— Darkness there, and nothing more.
EDGAR ALLAN POE Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer
Swung by Seraphim whose fo...
EDGAR ALLAN POE Leave my loneliness unbroken
EDGAR ALLAN POE Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore...
EDGAR ALLAN POE Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore.
EDGAR ALLAN POE I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.
EDGAR ALLAN POE The Tell Tale Poe
EDGAR ALLAN POE Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.
EDGAR ALLAN POE years of love have been forgot, in the hatred of a minute.
EDGAR ALLAN POE We now demand the light artillery of the intellect; we need the curt, the condensed, the pointed, th...
EDGAR ALLAN POE There was much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible,...
EDGAR ALLAN POE I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect...
EDGAR ALLAN POE The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
EDGAR ALLAN POE Lord help my poor soul.
EDGAR ALLAN POE If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thou...
EDGAR ALLAN POE That I scarce was sure I heard you- here I opened wide the door;- Darkness there, and nothing more.
EDGAR ALLAN POE I am ugly.
EDGAR ALLAN POE The angels, whispering to one another Can find, among their burning terms of love, None so devotiona...
EDGAR ALLAN POE On the morrow he will leave me, as my hopes have flown before. Then the bird said "Nevermore.
EDGAR ALLAN POE [Soon] Gothic ... hidden vices and perversions behind the veneer of virtue.
EDGAR ALLAN POE To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness
EDGAR ALLAN POE A valet, of stealthy step, thence conducted me, in silence, through many dark and intricate passages...
EDGAR ALLAN POE Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portio...
EDGAR ALLAN POE I was never really insane, except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
EDGAR ALLAN POE That is another of your odd notions," said the Prefect, who had a fashion of calling every thing "od...
EDGAR ALLAN POE The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at onc...
EDGAR ALLAN POE True, nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am, but why will say that I am mad?! The...
EDGAR ALLAN POE Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
EDGAR ALLAN POE Invisible things are the only realities.
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 chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficien...
EDGAR ALLAN POE When I wanted to forget, it killed me to remember and when I wanted to remember, I had the good fort...
EDGAR ALLAN POE Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them
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EDGAR ALLAN POE Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,/ Over many a quaint and curious volum...
EDGAR ALLAN POE A gentleman with a pug nose is a contradiction in terms.
EDGAR ALLAN POE Thank Heaven! The crisis /The danger is past, and the lingering illness, is over at last /, and the ...
EDGAR ALLAN POE A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this / that offences against Charity are about the o...
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Take this kiss upon the brow!
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Such hilarious visions ...
EDGAR ALLAN POE A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offenses against Charity are about the o...
EDGAR ALLAN POE Edgar Allan Poe and Bram Stoker: A Meeting of the Macabre.
EDGAR ALLAN POE The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth ma...
EDGAR ALLAN POE ...And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor shall be lifted--nevermore!
EDGAR ALLAN POE There are moments when, even to the sober eye of Reason, the world of our sad humanity must assume t...
EDGAR ALLAN POE I was never really insane, except on occasions where my heart was touched.
EDGAR ALLAN POE Yes, I now feel that it was then on that evening of sweet dreams- that the very first dawn of human ...
EDGAR ALLAN POE Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impul...
EDGAR ALLAN POE As the strong man exults in his physical ability, delighting in such exercises as call his muscles i...
EDGAR ALLAN POE In [chess], where the pieces have different and "bizarre" motions, with various and variable values,...
EDGAR ALLAN POE Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expectiing that it soon will be so.
EDGAR ALLAN POE The plots of God are perfect. The Universe is a plot of God.
EDGAR ALLAN POE Coincidences, in general, are great stumbling-blocks in the way of that class of thinkers who have b...
EDGAR ALLAN POE All I lov'd I lov'd alone.
EDGAR ALLAN POE The higher powers of the reflective intellect are more decidedly and more usefully tasked by the uno...
EDGAR ALLAN POE I have great faith in fools - my friends call it self-confidence
EDGAR ALLAN POE There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm
EDGAR ALLAN POE All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry
EDGAR ALLAN POE But as, in ethics, evil is a consequence of good, so, in fact, out of joy is sorrow born. Either the...
EDGAR ALLAN POE Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You sho...
EDGAR ALLAN POE تنفلت المواد من إدراك حواس الإنسان تدريجياً. لدينا مثل�...
EDGAR ALLAN POE The principle of vis inertiae (...) seems to be identical in physics and metaphysics. It is not more...
EDGAR ALLAN POE Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow-
Yo...
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