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Edgar Allan Poe Quotes

Total quotes: 32
“They 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…”
— Edgar Allan Poe, Eleonora
Tagged: Dream, Dreaming, Knowledge, Intellect, daydream
“A poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul.”
— Edgar Allan Poe, Essays and Reviews
Tagged: poem, Poetry, poetry is human existence, Feelings, poetry touches soul
“I grew, day by day, more moody, more irritable, more regardless of the feelings of others.”
— Edgar Allan Poe, The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe: An Annotated Edition
Tagged: emotions, Personality change, Moody, Mood Swings
“Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.’”
— Edgar Allan Poe, Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales and Poems
Tagged: The Raven, Darkness, Eerie, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.”
— Edgar Allan Poe, A Dream Within a Dream
Tagged: Reality, Dream, Dreaming, Living, Life, poem, Poetry
“I wasn’t insane until someone touched my heart.”
— Edgar Allan Poe, A quote by Edgar Allan Poe
Tagged: Falling In Love, Love and Affection
“years of love have been forgot

In the hatred of a minute”
— Edgar Allan Poe, To - -
Tagged: Edgar Allan Poe, Scary Stories, short stories, Poems
“"Prophet!" said I, "thing of evil! — prophet still, if bird or devil!"”
— Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven
“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, The Landscape Garden
Tagged: Edgar Allan Poe, short stories, Scary Stories, Poems
“Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.”
— Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven
Tagged: Edgar Allan Poe, short stories, Scary Stories, Poems, Horror
“There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion. Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made.”
— Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque Of The Red Death
Tagged: Edgar Allan Poe, short stories, Scary Stories, Poems
“And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor
Shall be lifted — nevermore!”
— Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven
“And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain
Thrilled me — filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before.”
— Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven
“Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December;
And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.”
— Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven
“In her sepulcher there by the sea —
In her tomb by the sounding sea.”
— Edgar Allan Poe, Annabel Lee
“The life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.”
— Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque Of Red Death
Tagged: Apocalypse, Horror Stories
“Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing,
Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.”
— Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven
“Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.”
— Edgar Allan Poe, The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether
Tagged: Philosophy, Life, Belief, Advice
“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
— Edgar Allan Poe, The Last Letters of Edgar Allan Poe to Sarah Helen Whitman
Tagged: Literary Fame
“Coincidences, in general, are great stumbling blocks in the way of that class of thinkers who have been educated to know nothing of the theory of probabilities- that theory to which the most glorious objects of human research are indebted for the most glorious of illustration.”
— Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue
Tagged: Edgar Allan Poe, short stories, Scary Stories, Poems, Horror
“When it most closely allies itself to Beauty: the death, then, of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world — and equally is it beyond doubt that the lips best suited for such topic are those of a bereaved lover.”
— Edgar Allan Poe, The Philosophy of Composition
Tagged: Edgar Allan Poe, short stories, Scary Stories, Poems, Writing, Composition
“I was a child and she was a child,
In this kingdom by the sea,
But we loved with a love that was more than love —
I and my Annabel Lee —
With a love that the wingèd seraphs of Heaven
Coveted her and me.”
— Edgar Allan Poe, Annabel Lee
“It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden 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, Annabel Lee
“Nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute. I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell. How then am I mad? ”
— Edgar Allan Poe, The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe (Xist Classics)
Tagged: Nervous, Insanity
“We loved with a love that was more than love.”
— Edgar Allan Poe, Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales and Poems
Tagged: Forever With You
“We loved with a love that was more than love.”
— Edgar Allan Poe, Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales and Poems
Tagged: Literary Love Quotes, Love, Literature
“From childhood’s hour I have not been
As others were—I have not seen
As others saw—I could not bring
My passions from a common spring—
From the same source I have not taken
My sorrow—I could not awaken
My heart to joy at the same tone—
And all I lov’d—I lov’d alone—”
— Edgar Allan Poe, Alone
Tagged: Edgar Allan Poe, short stories, Scary Stories, Poems
“There are two bodies — the rudimental and the complete ; corresponding with the two conditions of the worm and the butterfly. What we call "death," is but the painful metamorphosis. Our present incarnation is progressive, preparatory, temporary. Our future is perfected, ultimate, immortal. The ultimate life is the full design.”
— Edgar Allan Poe, Mesmeric Revelation
Tagged: Edgar Allan Poe, short stories, Scary Stories, Poems
“It is impossible to describe, or to imagine, the deep, the blissful sense of relief which the absence of the detested creature occasioned in my bosom. It did not make its appearance during the night — and thus for one night at least, since its introduction into the house, I soundly and tranquilly slept; aye, slept even with the burden of murder upon my soul!”
— Edgar Allan Poe, The Black Cat
“And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting
On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door;
And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon’s that is dreaming,
And the lamp-light o’er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor;
And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor
Shall be lifted—nevermore!”
— Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven
Tagged: Edgar Allan Poe, short stories, Scary Stories, Poems, Horror
“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. Who has not, a hundred times, found himself committing a vile or a stupid action, for no other reason than because he knows he should not? Have we not a perpetual inclination, in the teeth of our best judgement, to violate that which is Law, merely because we understand it to be such?”
— Edgar Allan Poe, The Black Cat
“Object there was none. Passion there was none. I loved the old man. He had never wronged me. He had never given me insult. For his gold I had no desire. I think it was his eye! yes, it was this! One of his eyes resembled that of a vulture — a pale blue eye, with a film over it. Whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold; and so by degrees — very gradually — I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye for ever.”
— Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart
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