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Edgar Allan Poe Quotes

Edgar Allan Poe quotes

American Poet, Writer January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849

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Out- out are the lights- out all! And, over each quivering form, The curtain, a funeral pall, Comes down with the rush of a storm, While the angels, all pallid and wan, Uprising, unveiling, affirm. That the play is the tragedy, "Man,"And its hero the Conqueror Worm. Edgar Allan Poe
The true genius shudders at incompleteness? imperfection? and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not every thing that should be said. Edgar Allan Poe
Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligenc? whether much that is gloriou? whether all that is profoun? does not spring from disease of though? from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect. Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe quote: "Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite..."
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality. Edgar Allan Poe
Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart - one of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give direction to the character of man. Edgar Allan Poe
I stand amid the roar. Of a surf-tormented shore, And I hold within my hand. Grains of golden sand-How few! yet how they creep. Through my fingers to the deep, While I weep- while I weep! Edgar Allan Poe
Our talk had been serious and sober, But our thoughts they were palsied and sere -For we knew not the month was October, And we marked not the night of the year -(Ah, night of all nights in the year!)We noted not the dim lake of Auber -(Though once we had journeyed down here) -Remembered not the dank tarn of Auber, Nor the ghoul-haunted woodland of Weir. Edgar Allan Poe
In other words, I believed, and still do believe, that truth, is frequently of its own essence, superficial, and that, in many cases, the depth lies more in the abysses where we seek her, than in the actual situations wherein she may be found. Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe quote: "On the morrow he will leave me as my hopes have flown before."
On the morrow he will leave me as my hopes have flown before. Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe quote: "Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe, and forget this lost Lenore!"
Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe, and forget this lost Lenore! Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe quote: "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream."
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. Edgar Allan Poe
And boyhood is a summer sun / Whose waning is the dreariest one-- / For all we live to know is known, / And all we seek to keep hath flown-- Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe quote: "Yet mad I am not...and very surely do I not dream."
Yet mad I am not...and very surely do I not dream. Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe quote: "Is all that we see or seem. But a dream within a dream?"
Is all that we see or seem. But a dream within a dream? Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe quote: "The idea of God, infinity, or spirit stands for the possible..."
The idea of God, infinity, or spirit stands for the possible attempt at an impossible conception. Edgar Allan Poe

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