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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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Yes, Heaven is thine; but this. Is a world of sweets and sours; Our flowers are merely - flowers, And the shadow of thy perfect bliss. Is the sunshine of ours. Edgar Allan Poe
I could have clasped the red walls to my bosom as a garment of eternal peace. "Death," I said, "any death but that of the pit!" Fool! might I have not known that into the pit it was the object of the burning iron to urge me? Edgar Allan Poe
There are things around us and about, of which I can render no distinct account--Things material and spiritual; heaviness in the atmosphere; a sense of suffocation, anxiety, and above all, that terrible state of existence which the nervous experience when the senses are keenly living and awake and meanwhile the powers of thought lie dormant. Edgar Allan Poe
I seemed to be upon the verge of comprehension, without the power to comprehend as men, at time, find themselves upon the brink of rememberance, without being able, in the end, to remember. Edgar Allan Poe
It is more than probable that I am not understood; but I fear, indeed, that it is in no manner possible to convey to the mind of the merely general reader, an adequate idea of that nervous intensity of interest with which, in my case, the powers of meditation (not to speak technically) busied and buried themselves, in the contemplation of even the most ordinary objects of the universe. Edgar Allan Poe
The history of human knowledge has so uninterruptedly shown that to collateral, or incidental, or accidental events we are indebted for the most numerous and most valuable discoveries, that it has at length become necessary, in any prospective view of improvement, to make not only large, but the largest allowances for inventions that shall arise by chance, and quite out of the range of ordinary expectation. It is no longer philosophical to base, upon what has been, a vision of what is to be.... Edgar Allan Poe
By a route obscure and lonely, Haunted by ill angels only, Where an Eidolon, named NIGHT, On a black throne reigns upright, I have wandered home but newly From this ultimate dim Thule. Edgar Allan Poe
Lo! 'tis a gala night. Within the lonesome latter years! An angel throng, bewinged, bedight. In veils, and drowned in tears, Sit in a theatre, to see. A play of hopes and fears [...] Edgar Allan Poe
I call to mind flatness and dampness; and then all is madness - the madness of a memory which busies itself among forbidden things. Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe quote: "If we cannot comprehend God in his visible works, how then in..."
If we cannot comprehend God in his visible works, how then in his inconceivable thoughts, that call the works into being? Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe quote: "It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in..."
It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial. Edgar Allan Poe
A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offenses against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime. Edgar Allan Poe
A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime. Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe quote: "And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable..."
And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all. Edgar Allan Poe
It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream. Edgar Allan Poe

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