Edgar Allan Poe Quotes - Page 4

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• All works of art should begin... at the end.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Art, Ends, Should

  Edgar Allan Poe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)”, p.3541, Delphi Classics

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• A mystery, and a dream, should my early life seem.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Dream, Mystery, Should

  Edgar Allan Poe, Thomas Ollive Mabbott (1969). “Complete Poems”, p.75, University of Illinois Press

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• Once upon a midnight dreary

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Midnight, Dreary

  "The Raven" l. 1 (1845)

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• There is no passion in nature so demoniacally impatient, as that of him who, shuddering upon the edge of a precipice, thus meditates a Plunge.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Passion, Impatient, Plunge

  Edgar Allan Poe (2012). “Edgar Allan Poe: Selected Poetry and Tales”, p.398, Broadview Press

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• I am walking like a bewitched corpse, with the certainty of being eaten by the infinite, of being annulled by the only existing Absurd.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Infinite, Absurd, Certainty

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• ...the agony of my soul found vent in one loud, long and final scream of despair.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Agony, Long, Soul

  Edgar Allan Poe (2015). “The Complete Tales of Edgar Allan Poe”, p.408, Lulu.com

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• Democracy is a very admirable form of government - for dogs

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Dog, Government, Democracy

  Edgar Allan Poe (2012). “Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allen Poe”, p.379, Doubleday

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• Truth is not always in a well. In fact, as regards the more important knowledge, I do believe that she is invariably superficial. The depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Lying, Believe, Important

  Edgar Allan Poe (2016). “The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe”, p.130, Xist Publishing

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• No man who ever lived knows any more about the hereafter than you and I.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Men, Hereafter, Knows

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• Come little children I'll take thee away, into a land of Enchantment Come little children the time's come to play here in my garden of Shadows Follow sweet children I'll show thee the way through all the pain and the Sorrows Weep not poor childlen for life is this way murdering beauty and Passions Hush now dear children it must be this way to weary of life and Deceptions Rest now my children for soon we'll away into the calm and the Quiet Come little children I'll take thee away, into a land of Enchantment Come little children the time's come to play here in my garden of Shadows

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Sweet, Children, Pain

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• There are moments when, even to the sober eye of Reason, the world of our sad humanity must assume the aspect of Hell.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Sad, Eye, Humanity

  Edgar Allan Poe (1980). “The Unknown Poe: An Anthology of Fugitive Writings”, p.52, City Lights Books

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• The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body; and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrilled every fibre of my frame.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Soul, Body, Flight

  Edgar Allan Poe (1927). “Tales by Edgar Allan Poe”, p.35, Dimitrios Spyridon Chytiris

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• 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

  Beautiful, Littles, Might

  Edgar Allan Poe (2014). “Complete Collection of Edgar Allan Poe - 170+ eBooks (Complete Tales, Poems, Novels, Essays, Miscellaneous, Play)”, p.350, Ageless Reads

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• It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Doubt, May, Enigma

  "The Gold-Bug" (1843).

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• Who cares how time advances? I am drinking ale today.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Drinking, Beer, Alcohol

  Edgar Allan Poe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)”, p.229, Delphi Classics

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• We loved with a love that was more than love.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Love, Marriage, Valentines Day

  "Annabel Lee" l. 7 (1849)

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• Sleep, those little slices of death — how I loathe them.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Death, Sleep, Littles

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• Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. In their gray visions they obtain glimpses of eternity, and thrill, in waking, to find that they have been upon the verge of the great secret. In snatches, they learn something of the wisdom which is of good, and more of the mere knowledge which is of evil.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Dream, Night, Evil

  Edgar Allan Poe (2012). “Complete Tales & Poems”, p.649, Vintage

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• The most natural, and, consequently, the truest and most intense of the human affections are those which arise in the heart as if by electric sympathy.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Heart, Affection, Intense

  Edgar Allan Poe (1927). “Tales by Edgar Allan Poe”, p.442, Dimitrios Spyridon Chytiris

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• To speak algebraically, Mr. M. is execrable, but Mr. G. is (x + 1)- ecrable.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Math, Speak, Mathematics

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• And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting...

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Ravens, Sitting Still, Nevermore

  "The Raven" l. 103 (1845)

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• The people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Law, People

  Edgar Allan Poe (2013). “The Works of Edgar Allan Poe”, p.193, Simon and Schuster

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• In our endeavors to recall to memory something long forgotten, we often find ourselves upon the very verge of remembrance, without being able, in the end, to remember.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Memories, Long, Remembrance

  Edgar Allan Poe (2014). “The Complete Tales & Poems of Edgar Allan Poe”, p.564, Race Point Pub

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• How many good books suffer neglect through the inefficiency of their beginnings!

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Book, Thoughtful, Suffering

  Edgar Allan Poe, Gary Richard Thompson (1984). “Essays and Reviews”, p.1322, Library of America

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• I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Atmosphere, Sorrow, Melancholy

  Edgar Allan Poe (2004). “The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe”, p.174, Wordsworth Editions

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