Edgar Allan Poe Quotes

You have conquered, and I yield. Yet, henceforward art thou ... dead to the World, to Heaven and to Hope! In me didst thou exist—and, in my ...

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Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the v...

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To see distinctly the machinery—the wheels and pinions—of any work of Art is, unquestionably, of itself, a pleasure, but one which we are ...

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the wind came out of the cloud chilling And killing my Annabel Lee.

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The waves have now a redder glow— The hours are breathing faint and low—...

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The painter stood entranced before the work which he had wrought;... he grew tremulous and ... crying with a loud voice, 'This is indeed Life ...

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The prince had provided all the appliances of pleasure ...: buffoons,... improvisatori,... ballet-dancers,... musicians,... Beauty,... wine. A...

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The lady sleeps! Oh, may her sleep, Which is enduring, so be deep! Heaven have her in its sacred keep!

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

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The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

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Thank Heaven! the crisis — The danger, is past,...

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Some sepulcher, remote, alone, Against whose portal she hath thrown,...

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Resignedly beneath the sky The melancholy waters lie....

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Semi-Saracenic architecture, sustaining itself as if by miracle in mid air; glittering in the red sunlight with a hundred oriels, minarets, an...

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She was a child and I was a child, In this kingdom by the sea,...

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Nor had I erred in my calculations—nor had I endured in vain. I at length felt that I was free.

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Nor will this overwhelming tendency to do wrong for wrong's sake, admit of analysis, or resolution into ulterior elements. It is a radical, a ...

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My love—my faith—should instil into your bosom a praeternatural calm. You would rest from care.... You would get better.... And if not, He...

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Lo! Death has reared himself a throne In a strange city lying alone...

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Men die nightly in their beds, wringing the hands of ghostly confessors ... on account of the hideousness of mysteries which will not suffer t...

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It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea,...

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In the Original Unity of the First Thing lies the Secondary Cause of All Things, with the Germ of their Inevitable Annihilation.

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If I venture to displace ... the microscopical speck of dust... on the point of my finger,... I have done a deed which shakes the Moon in her ...

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If the propositions of this Discourse are tenable, the 'state of progressive collapse' is precisely that state in which alone we are warranted...

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How much more intense is the excitement wrought in the feelings of a crowd by the contemplation of human agony, than that brought about by the...

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Far in the forest, dim and old, For her may some tall vault unfold—

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As I rapidly made the mesmeric passes, amid ejaculations of 'dead! dead!' absolutely bursting from the tongue and not from the lips of the suf...

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As a viewed myself in a fragment of looking-glass..., I was so impressed with a sense of vague awe at my appearance ... that I was seized with...

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And so all the night-tide, I lie down by the side Of my darling, my darling, my life and my bride...

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And we passed to the end of a vista, But were stopped by the door of a tomb—...

By Edgar Allan Poe