Edgar Allan Poe Quotes

I fell in love with melancholy

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In the deepest slumber-no! In delirium-no! In a swoon-no! In death-no! even in the grave all is not lost.

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We now demand the light artillery of the intellect; we need the curt, the condensed, the pointed, the readily diffused -- in place of the verbose, the detailed, the voluminous, the inaccessible.

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Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.

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Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

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There is then no analogy whatever between the operations of the Chess-Player, and those of the calculating machine of Mr. Babbage , and if we choose to call the former a pure machine we must be prepared to admit that it is, beyond all comparison, the most wonderful of the inventions of mankind.

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If in many of my productions terror has been the thesis, I maintain that terror is not of Germany, but of the soul.

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Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best have gone to their eternal rest.

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And all my days are trances, And all my nightly dreams Are where thy dark eye glances, And where thy footstep gleams-- In what ethereal dances, By what eternal streams!

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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries

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Out- out are the lights- out all! And, over each quivering form, The curtain, a funeral pall, Comes down with the rush of a storm, While the angels, all pallid and wan, Uprising, unveiling, affirm That the play is the tragedy, "Man," And its hero the Conqueror Worm.

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It is the curse of a certain order of mind, that it can never rest satisfied with the consciousness of its ability to do a thing.Still less is it content with doing it. It must both know and show how it was done.

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Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness.

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The customs of the world are so many conventional follies.

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As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.

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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.

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The greater amount of truth is impulsively uttered; thus the greater amount is spoken, not written.

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Thy soul shall find itself alone ’Mid dark thoughts of the gray tombstone— Not one, of all the crowd, to pry Into thine hour of secrecy. Be silent in that solitude, Which is not loneliness—for then The spirits of the dead who stood In life before thee are again In death around thee—and their will Shall overshadow thee: be still. [...]

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Never to suffer would have been never to have been blessed.

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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 themselves to be revealed.

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