In [chess], where the pieces have different and "bizarre" motions, with various and variable values, what is only complex, is mistaken (a not unusual error) for what is profound.


Edgar Allan Poe

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Detective fiction could not have existed without Edgar Allan Poe.
GILES FODEN
Ques eso? Queso?
NOLAN J. VANDER HAAGEN
Edgar Allan Poe and Bram Stoker: A Meeting of the Macabre.
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The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception...
SAM HARRIS
I briefly considered doing Edgar Allan Poe and just swearing a lot.
ANDY RICHTER
When push comes to shove would people do what they felt was right, to get justice done or would they...
GARY F EVANS...
She buys "mixed salad greens" for seven dollars a bag, triple-washed with who knows what. And to get...
RUDOLPH DELSON
The sky was the color of Edgar Allan Poe's pajamas.
TOM ROBBINS
Long suffering had nearly annihilated all my ordinary powers of mind. I was an imbecile—an idiot.
EDGAR ALLAN POE
Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C.
When you add love to sex, it feels as if your soul is being drawn from the chains of gravity into th...
CHLOE THURLOW
Love? I always thought love was just something that ate away your sanity, left you with an inferiori...
TOMOKO HAYAKAWA
How do you love your children?
By doing what's best for them.
Then how would you love your...
J. GRANT HOWARD
It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN
Szerzetesek, vannak tanulatlan, közönséges emberek, akik nem gondolnak a nemes dolgokkal, nem hal...
GAUTAMA BUDDHA
És Brahmá, a Teremtő, felső ruháját fél vállán átvetve, összetett kézzel meghajolt a Mag...
GAUTAMA BUDDHA
Quoth the raven nevermore.
EDGAR ALLAN POE
What if — is more complicated than that? What if maybe opposite is true as well? Because, if bad c...
DONNA TARTT
I've named a couple things after Edgar Allan Poe: the cat, and my garden upstate, where I only p...
HILARIE BURTON
How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g...
C. JOYBELL C.
Next generations will not know what is to have childhood.
DANIEL MELGAçO
I've been influenced by poets as diverse as Dylan Thomas, Lewis Carroll, and Edgar Allan Poe.
JACK PRELUTSKY
I was warped early by Ray Bradbury and Edgar Allan Poe. I was very fond of Franz Kafka.
MARGARET ATWOOD
No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar ...
H. P. LOVECRAFT
Do what is best for you; it will be the best for the world.
DEBASISH MRIDHA
The aim of philosophy, abstractly formulated, is to understand how things in the broadest possible s...
WILFRID SELLARS
FOOTBALL IS A DECISION GAME BASED ON QUICK THINKING IN RELATION TO WHAT IS HAPPENING AROUND YOU AND ...
LERCHE NJANG
I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
TED TURNER
What matters is the one thing I do know for certain: God is with me.
CRAIG GROESCHEL
All that you see or seem, is but a dream within a dream. They who dream by day are cognizant of many...
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Edgar Allan Poe, an earlier UVA student, once complained in a letter that his stepfather spoke to hi...
MATTHEW PEARL
The modern story begun, one might say, with Edgar Allan Poe, which proceeds inexorably, like a machi...
JULIO CORTáZAR
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
Poe is the only impeccable writer. He was never mistaken.
PAUL VALERY
What is sin?
It is the glory of God not honored.
The holiness of God not reverenced.
...
JOHN PIPER
Love is insanity, apparently.
COREY ANN HAYDU
Love, real love, the kind that you fall in, isn’t like Corinthians. The “suffereth long” and �...
JULIE ANNE LONG
Love without reason is fleeting; love without emotion, dry.
J.R. MORALES
See the world for what it is.
BEAUTIFUL!
ANTHONY T. HINCKS
A mother isn’t the person who births you; it’s the person who rears you and shows you love.
RAQUEL CEPEDA
The past is a pebble in my shoe.
POE
Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM
To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN
Life is a matter of choosing what is good for you.
NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO
Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is.
MICHAEL KEATON
There is a law of the natural worlds (the spiritual and the physical) and this is something I have u...
C. JOYBELL C.
Hey," said Shadow. "Huginn or Muninn, or whoever you are."
The bird turned, head tipped, suspi...
NEIL GAIMAN
something must go within to bring what is within out. Oh yes! You need something within to bring wha...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
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
Real love is feeling so loved and so secure that even your name feels safe in his mouth.
CJ HECK
What Fucks me... is that we both are the same... we all walk on the same path... but everything is a...
DEYTH BANGER
When you're recording to analog tape, it captures performance and you can't necessarily mani...
DAVE GROHL
You get to the point where you're like, 'I'm just doing me, and if people don't like...
BEBE REXHA
Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY
It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delive...
DAN FLAVIN
With '10,000,' our aim was to make a film that was entertaining and a roller-coaster ride; i...
STEVEN STRAIT
Courage is feeling justly afraid and yet still doing what is right.
SHANNON HALE
If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe d...
QUENTIN CRISP
Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one.
NOW IS GOOD
It is the simple things that are in the ocean. People think that simple things are on the seashore, ...
C. JOYBELL C.
I never like it when a celebrity goes on Twitter and says, 'This isn't true!' It is what...
HARRY STYLES
Sooner or later, what you do will speak
SOTONYE ANGA
Love. What is it truly? Love is a spiritual state, an intangible, often insatiable need to put one's...
BELLA VESPIRA
What is love?
It's not empathy, nor kindness.
Empathy takes two, the one who hurts and the...
NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS
What is the essence of networking? I would say first collecting the dots and then connecting the dot...
SIMCHA GLUCK
What is happiness? The feeling that power increases - that resistance is being overcome
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
...I've learned that doing what you think is right doesn't always make you feel good. For another, I...
ANN RINALDI
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
Wanting something badly even though it could hurt you," Bentley repeated. He looked up at the ceilin...
NELLIE CHRISTINE
Women think they can act like evil monsters from hell and be loved like a princess. It's as if the d...
ROBIN SACREDFIRE
Stand for something. Make your life mean something. Start where you are with what you have. You are ...
GERMANY KENT
Edgar Allan Poe, I think he's a brilliant poet. I was actually given a copy of his work when I w...
DOVE CAMERON
There’s a reason for the word heartbeat not be called beat of heart. The perfect woman only needs ...
ROBIN SACREDFIRE
Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an...
LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD
A dead heart is a dead life; keep your heart alive; let your heart beat for something unique!
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
At midnight, in the month of June, I stand beneath the mystic moon.
EDGAR ALLAN POE
His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
TEKOA MANNING
Love ? Love is when you are ready to do every possible and positive thing for someone,
SID
I saw that there is no Nature,
That Nature doesn’t exist,
That there are hills, valleys,...
ALBERTO CAEIRO
You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I ...
SUFJAN STEVENS
Epilepsy is a disease in the shadows. Patients are often reluctant to admit their condition - even t...
LYNDA RESNICK
Existem cordas, nos corações dos mais indiferentes, que não podem ser tocadas sem emoção.
EDGAR ALLAN POE
Aimer, ça ne veut pas dire se ressembler. Aimer, ça ne veut pas dire être pareils, se conduire co...
JUSTINE LéVY
Romantic love, I think, requires a degree of physical attraction, but devotion is needed to maintain...
ANGELA N. BLOUNT
Falling in love is more than infatuation. It is the need to feel whole, to feel safe, to be healed, ...
MICHAEL R. FRENCH
The fear of God is the only cure for the fear of people.
CRAIG GROESCHEL
A woman being never at a loss... the devil always sticks by them.
GEORGE GORDON BYRON
I’m glad I see with my eyes and not the pages I’ve read.
ALBERTO CAEIRO
It is what it is and so is my determination to change 'what is' into a better 'is'.
BRANDON A. TREAN
Life is a re-discovery.
BRIAN BLESSED
If you think that life is a celebration full of party poppers and merry go rounds it's not it's a ga...
GARY F EVANS...
Life Is a Misconception.
DEYTH BANGER
Life is a desire!
DEYTH BANGER
To trust someone you must firstly remember that it is a two way street that will go all the way if y...
GARY F EVANS...
It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER
Godliness with contentment is rare.
CRAIG GROESCHEL
The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a...
JEANETTE CORON

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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.
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Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.
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The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.
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The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
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I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.
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Thank Heaven! the crisis --The danger, is past, and the lingering illness, is over at last --, and t...
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That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I...
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From childhood's hour I have not been
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Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftie...
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I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
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There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.
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Sleep, those little slices of death — how I loathe them.
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Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
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Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious v...
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I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not be...
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I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it.
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I am a writer. Therefore. I am not sane.
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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.
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All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.
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From childhood's hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not a...
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We loved with a love that was more than love.
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Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance.
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I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect...
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We now demand the light artillery of the intellect; we need the curt, the condensed, the pointed, th...
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To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.
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Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now,
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In the one instance, the dreamer, or enthusiast, being interested by an object usually not frivolous...
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Deep into the darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing,
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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics o...
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Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
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A lunatic may be
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Odors have an altogether peculiar force, in affecting us through association; a force differing esse...
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There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the ca...
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Of a water that flows,
With a lullaby sound,
From a spring but a very few
Feet under ground...
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From childhood's hour I have not been As others were; I have not seen As others saw; I could not bri...
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Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
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The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
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All that you see or seem, is but a dream within a dream. They who dream by day are cognizant of many...
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I have great faith in fools--self-confidence my friends call it.
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The murmur that springs From the growing of grass.
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Hear the sledges with the bells, Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretell...
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Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow-- You are not wron...
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Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term art, I should call it "the Reproduction of what t...
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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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Filled with mingled cream and amber I will drain that glass again. Such hilarious visions clamber Th...
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I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect...
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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
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Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
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If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
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All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
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Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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Deep in earth my love is lying
And I must weep alone.
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It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
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It is more than probable that I am not understood; but I fear, indeed, that it is in no manner possi...
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The best things in life make you sweaty.
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It is a happiness to wonder; -- it is a happiness to dream.
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There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible...
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Scorching my seared heart with a pain, not hell shall make me fear again.
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Depend upon it, after all, Thomas, Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about...
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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.
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Sleep, those little slices of death; Oh how I loathe them.
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Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
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Even in the grave, all is not lost.
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The secret of a poem, no less than a jest's prosperity, lies in the ear of him that hears it.
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The giant will succumbed to a power more stern.
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Prophet!' said I, 'thing of evil! - prophet still, it bird or devil!
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Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter, In there stepped a stately Raven...
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Prophet!” said I, “thing of evil! — prophet still, if bird or devil! —
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Once upon a midnight dreary, while
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Quoth the raven nevermore.
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Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume...
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And then there are times, Mr. Osgood, when one must just let go.” His gaze softened. “I believe,...
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But the raven, sitting lonely on the placid bust, spoke only That one word, as if his soul in that o...
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Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou,” I said, “art sure no craven, Ghastly grim and ancie...
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Prophet!” said I, “thing of evil! — prophet still, if bird or devil! — Whether Tempter sen...
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Leave my loneliness unbroken!—quit the bust above my door!
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Lenore — For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore — Nameless
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And the raven quote, nevermore.
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Actually, I do have doubts, all the time. Any thinking person does. There are so many sides to every...
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Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend!” I shrieked, upstarting—
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Darkness there, and nothing more.
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Tell me truly, I implore-- Is there-- is there balm in Gilead?--tell me--tell me, I implore!
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Other friends have flown before — On the morrow he will leave me, as my hopes have flown before.�...
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Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing,
Doubting, dreaming drea...
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Here I opened wide the door;— Darkness there, and nothing more.
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Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer
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Leave my loneliness unbroken
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Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore...
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Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore.
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I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.
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The Tell Tale Poe
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Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.
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years of love have been forgot, in the hatred of a minute.
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We now demand the light artillery of the intellect; we need the curt, the condensed, the pointed, th...
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There was much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible,...
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I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect...
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The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
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Lord help my poor soul.
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If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thou...
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That I scarce was sure I heard you- here I opened wide the door;- Darkness there, and nothing more.
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I am ugly.
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The angels, whispering to one another Can find, among their burning terms of love, None so devotiona...
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On the morrow he will leave me, as my hopes have flown before. Then the bird said "Nevermore.
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[Soon] Gothic ... hidden vices and perversions behind the veneer of virtue.
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To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness
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A valet, of stealthy step, thence conducted me, in silence, through many dark and intricate passages...
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I was never really insane, except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
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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
EDGAR ALLAN POE
I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty
EDGAR ALLAN POE
All that we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream
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...
EDGAR ALLAN POE
...And, all at once, the moon arouse through the thin ghastly mist, And was crimson in color... And ...
EDGAR ALLAN POE
A Dream Within A Dream

Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you...
EDGAR ALLAN POE
Villains!' I shrieked. 'Dissemble no more! I admit the deed! Tear up the planks! Here, here! It is t...
EDGAR ALLAN POE
In criticism, I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose...
EDGAR ALLAN POE
Fill with mingled cream and amber,
I will drain that glass again.
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
From childhood's hour I have not beenAs others were--I have not seenAs others saw.
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...
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...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
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...
EDGAR ALLAN POE