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Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expectiing that it soon will be so.


Edgar Allan Poe

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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.
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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...
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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...
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EDGAR ALLAN POE From childhood's hour I have not been
As others were; I have not seen
As others saw; I cou...
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
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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.
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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
EDGAR ALLAN POE I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty
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EDGAR ALLAN POE A gentleman with a pug nose is a contradiction in terms.
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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 ...
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EDGAR ALLAN POE From childhood's hour I have not beenAs others were--I have not seenAs others saw.
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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 ...
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EDGAR ALLAN POE The plots of God are perfect. The Universe is a plot of God.
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EDGAR ALLAN POE All I lov'd I lov'd alone.
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EDGAR ALLAN POE There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm
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And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow-
Yo...
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