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You need not attempt to shake off or to banter off Romance. It is an evil you will never get rid of to the end of your days. It is a part of yourself ... of your soul. Age will only mellow it a little, and give it a holier tone.

Edgar Allan Poe

Evil, Giving, Romance

Edgar Allan Poe (2006). “The Portable Edgar Allan Poe”, p.463, Penguin

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Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!” Quoth the raven, “Nevermore.

Edgar Allan Poe

Heart, Doors, Ravens

"The Raven" l. 101 (1845)

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To be thoroughly conversant with Man’s heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of Despair

Edgar Allan Poe

Heart, Men, Iron

1849 'Marginalia', in the Southern Literary Messenger, Jun.

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It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom you may know
By the name of Annabel Lee;--
And this maiden she lived with no other thought
Than to love and be loved by me.

Edgar Allan Poe

Love, Death, Book

"Annabel Lee" l. 5 (1849)

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Scorching my seared heart with a pain, not hell shall make me fear again.

Edgar Allan Poe

Pain, Heart, Hell

Edgar Allan Poe (1902). “The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe: Poems”

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I was cautious in what I said before the young lady; for I could not be sure that she was sane; and, in fact, there was a certain restless brilliancy about her eyes that half led me to imagine she was not.

Edgar Allan Poe

Eye, Half, Facts

Edgar Allan Poe, Stuart Levine, Susan Levine (1976). “The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe: An Annotated Edition”, p.597, University of Illinois Press

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The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

Edgar Allan Poe

Beautiful, Death, Thoughtful

1846 'The Philosophy of Composition', in Graham's Magazine, Apr.

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As the strong man exults in his physical ability, delighting in such exercises as call his muscles into action, so glories the analyst in that moral activity which disentangles.

Edgar Allan Poe

Strong, Exercise, Men

1841 Of detective work.'TheMurders in the Rue Morgue', in the Gentleman's Magazine, Apr.

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For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams
of the beautiful Annabel Lee

Edgar Allan Poe

Beautiful, Dream, Moon

Edgar Allan Poe (2014). “Classics Reimagined, Edgar Allan Poe”, p.196, Race Point Publishing

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A gentleman with a pug nose is a contradiction in terms.

Edgar Allan Poe

Gentleman, Pugs, Noses

Edgar Allan Poe, Gary Richard Thompson (1984). “Essays and Reviews”, p.1340, Library of America

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Thou wouldst be loved? - then let thy heart
From its present pathway part not!
Being everything which now thou art,
Be nothing which thou art not.
So with the world thy gentle ways,
Thy grace, thy more than beauty,
Shall be an endless theme of praise,
And love - a simple duty.

Edgar Allan Poe

Life, Art, Simple

Edgar Allan Poe (1912). “The Bells and Other Poems”, p.65, Library of Alexandria

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[E]very plot, worth the name, must be elaborated to its dénouement before anything be attempted with the pen. It is only with the dénouement constantly in view that we can plot its indispensable air of consequence, or causation, by making the incidents, and especially the tone at all points tend to the development of the intention.

Edgar Allan Poe

Air, Views, Names

Edgar Allan Poe (2016). “Edgar Allan Poe's Complete Poetical Works”, p.243, My Ebook Publishing House

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The analytical power should not be confounded with simple ingenuity; for while the analyst is necessarily ingenious, the ingenious man is often remarkably incapable of analysis.

Edgar Allan Poe

Power, Simple, Men

Edgar Allan Poe (2006). “The Best of Poe”, p.29, Prestwick House Inc

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I was forced to fall back upon the unsatisfactory conclusion, that while, beyond doubt, there are combinations of very simple natural objects which have the power of thus affecting us, still the analysis of this power lies among considerations beyond our depth. It was possible, I reflected, that a mere different arrangement of the particulars of the scene, of the details of the picture, would be sufficient to modify, or perhaps to annihilate its capacity for sorrowful impression.

Edgar Allan Poe

Lying, Fall, Simple

Edgar Allan Poe (2015). “The Fall of the House of Usher”, p.2, Booklassic

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It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.

Edgar Allan Poe

Imagination, Literature, Facts

1841 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue', in the Gentleman's Magazine, Apr.

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It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.

Edgar Allan Poe

Thoughtful, Reality, Superficial

Edgar Allan Poe (2012). “Literary Theory and Criticism”, p.126, Courier Corporation

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Thank Heaven! The crisis /The danger is past, and the lingering illness, is over at last /, and the fever called ''Living'' is conquered at last.

Edgar Allan Poe

Inspiring, Death, Past

1850 'ForAnnie'.

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I found him well educated, with unusual powers of mind, but infected with misanthropy, and subject to perverse moods of alternate enthusiasm and melancholy.

Edgar Allan Poe

Mind, Enthusiasm, Melancholy

Edgar Allan Poe (2015). “A Classic Crime Collection”, p.104, Simon and Schuster

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Ceux qui revent eveilles ont conscience de 1000 choses qui echapent a ceux qui ne revent qu'endormis. The one who has day dream are aware of 1000 things that the one who dreams only when he sleeps will never understand. (it sounds better in french, I do what I can with my translation...)

Edgar Allan Poe

Dream, Sleep, Sound

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Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore--While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As if some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. "'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door--Only this and nothing more.

Edgar Allan Poe

Sad, Rap, Doors

"The Raven" l. 1 (1845)

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Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

Edgar Allan Poe

Thoughtful, Taught Us, Intelligence

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And have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the sense? --now, I say, there came to my ears a low, dull, quick sound, such as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton. I knew that sound well, too. It was the beating of the old man's heart. It increased my fury, as the beating of a drum stimulates the soldier into courage.

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Mistake, Heart, Men

Edgar Allan Poe (2006). “The Best of Poe”, p.83, Prestwick House Inc

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Whether people grow fat by joking, or whether there is something in fat itself which predisposes to a joke, I have never been quite able to determine.

Edgar Allan Poe

People, Able, Fats

Edgar Allan Poe (2011). “The Tales of Edgar Allan Poe: A Kaplan SAT Score-Raising Classic”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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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

Breathing, Path, Combination

Edgar Allan Poe (2013). “The Works of Edgar Allan Poe”, p.142, Simon and Schuster

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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

Dream, Future, Mean

Edgar Allan Poe (1980). “The Unknown Poe: An Anthology of Fugitive Writings”, p.50, City Lights Books

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Born: January 19, 1809
Died: October 7, 1849
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