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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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To look at a star by glances - to view it in a side-long way, by turning toward it the exterior portions of the retina (more susceptible of feeble impressions of light than the interior), is to behold the star distinctly - is to have the best appreciation of its lustre - a lustre which grows dim just in proportion as we turn our vision fully upon it. Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe quote: "Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development,..."
Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears. Edgar Allan Poe
O craving heart, for the lost flowers/ And sunshine of my summer hours!/ The undying voice of that dead time,/ With its interminable chime,/ Rings in the spirit of a spell, / Upon thy emptiness--a knell. / I have not always been as now: Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe quote: "Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best have..."
Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best have gone to their eternal rest. Edgar Allan Poe
No pictorial or sculptural combinations of points of human loveliness, do more than approach the living and breathing human beauty as it gladdens our daily path. Edgar Allan Poe
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing, Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortals ever dared to dream before; But the silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token, And the only word there spoken was the whispered word, "Lenore?" This I whispered, and an echo murmured back the word, "Lenore!" — Merely this, and nothing more Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe quote: "that fitful strain of melancholy which will ever be found..."
...that fitful strain of melancholy which will ever be found inseperable from the perfection of the beautiful. Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe quote: "I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the..."
I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty. Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe quote: "Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words."
Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words. Edgar Allan Poe
That pleasure which is at once the most intense, the most elevating, and the most pure, is, I believe, found in the contemplation of the beautiful. Edgar Allan Poe
Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer. Swung by Seraphim whose footfalls tinkled on the tufted floor."Wretch," I cried, "thy God hath lent thee--by these angels he hath sent thee--Respite--respite and nepenthe from thy memories of Lenore! Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe, and forget this lost Lenore!"Quothe the Raven, "Nevermore. Edgar Allan Poe
And all my days are trances, And all my nightly dreams. Are where thy dark eye glances, And where thy footstep gleams--In what ethereal dances, By what eternal streams! Edgar Allan Poe
There was much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which might have excited disgust. Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe quote: "Helen, thy beauty is to me"
Helen, thy beauty is to me Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe quote: "The most expuisite beauty has strangeness in its..."
The most expuisite beauty has strangeness in its proportions..." Ligeia Edgar Allan Poe

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