Of a water that flows,
With a lullaby sound,
From a spring but a very few
Feet under ground --
From a cavern not very far
Down under ground.


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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.
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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
EDGAR ALLAN POE
All that we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream
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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...
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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