Edgar Allan Poe quote: "The higher powers of the reflective intellect are more decidedly and more usefully tasked by the unostentatious game of draughts than by all the elaborate frivolity of chess."

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...
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Lord, help my poor soul.
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Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.
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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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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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In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-n...
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In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose ...
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It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superfi...
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I need scarcely observe that a poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the...
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A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the o...
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The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which i...
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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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The true genius shudders at incompleteness — imperfection — and usually prefers silence to sayin...
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From childhood's hour I have not been
As others were; I have not seen
As others saw; I cou...
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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.
EDGAR ALLAN POE

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.
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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...
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...
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Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow--
You are no...
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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,
Doubting, dreaming dreams...
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I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence.
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A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this -- that offences against Charity are about the ...
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The object, Truth, or the satisfaction of the intellect, and the object, Passion, or the excitement ...
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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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To be thoroughly conversant with a man's heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volu...
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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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If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thou...
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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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I never can hear a crowd of people singing and gesticulating, all together, at an Italian opera, wit...
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The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of...
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Believe me, there exists no such dilemma as that in which a gentleman is placed when he is forced to...
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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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Ghastly, grim, and ancient Raven, wandering from the Nightly shore,-- Tell me what thy lordly nam...
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And still the Raven, never flitting, Still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of ...
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The murmur that springs From the growing of grass.
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Hear the mellow wedding bells, Golden bells! What a world of happiness their harmony foretells...
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Hear the sledges with the bells, Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretell...
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As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have r...
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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...
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On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face, Thy naiad airs have ...
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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...
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Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of wh...
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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.
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.
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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.
EDGAR ALLAN POE

The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
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The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the o...
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Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams n...
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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.
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It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think ...
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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.
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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...
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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.
EDGAR ALLAN POE

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. In t...
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It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom y...
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It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never o...
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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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It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may ...
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Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impul...
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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.
EDGAR ALLAN POE

Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
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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...
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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.
EDGAR ALLAN POE

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—
“Get thee back ...
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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.�...
EDGAR ALLAN POE

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
Swung by Seraphim whose fo...
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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.
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...
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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.
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...
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True, nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am, but why will say that I am mad?! The...
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Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
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Invisible things are the only realities.
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A man's grammar, like Caesar's wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.
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The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficien...
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When I wanted to forget, it killed me to remember and when I wanted to remember, I had the good fort...
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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!
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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,...
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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

The plots of God are perfect. The Universe is a plot of God.
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Coincidences, in general, are great stumbling-blocks in the way of that class of thinkers who have b...
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All I lov'd I lov'd alone.
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...
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تنفلت المواد من إدراك حواس الإنسان تدريجياً. لدينا مثل�...
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The principle of vis inertiae (...) seems to be identical in physics and metaphysics. It is not more...
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Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow-
Yo...
EDGAR ALLAN POE

The higher powers of the reflective intellect are more decidedly and more usefully tasked by the unostentatious game of draughts than by all the elaborate frivolity of chess.

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The higher powers of the reflective intellect are more decidedly and more usefully tasked by the unostentatious game of draughts than by all the elaborate frivolity of chess.

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