Edgar Allan Poe Quotes, Life Quotes, Dream Quotes

In visions of the dark night I have dreamed of joy departed- But a waking dream of life and light Hath left me broken-hearted. Ah! what is not a dream by day To him whose eyes are cast On things around him with a ray Turned back upon the past? That holy dream- that holy dream, While all the world were chiding, Hath cheered me as a lovely beam A lonely spirit guiding. What though that light, thro' storm and night, So trembled from afar- What could there be more purely bright In Truth's day-star?

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The enormous multiplication of books in every branch of knowledge is one of the greatest evils of this age, since it presents one of the most serious obstacles to the acquisition of correct information by throwing in the reader's way piles of lumber in which he must painfully grope for the scraps of useful matter, peradventure interspersed.

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And 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.

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Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.

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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. On the other hand, the lightness of the artillery should not degenerate into pop-gunnery - by which term we may designate the character of the greater portion of the newspaper press - their sole legitimate object being the discussion of ephemeral matters in an ephemeral manner.

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Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe, and forget this lost Lenore!

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That single thought is enough. The impulse increases to a wish, the wish to a desire, the desire to an uncontrollable longing, and the longing (to the deep regret and mortification of the speaker, and in defiance of all consequences,) is indulged.

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When, indeed, men speak of Beauty, they mean, precisely, not a quality, as is supposed, but an effect - they refer, in short, just to that intense and pure elevation of soul - not of intellect, or of heart.

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We had always dwelled together, beneath a tropical sun, in the Valley of the Many Colored Grass.

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And then there stole into my fancy, like a rich musical note, the thought of what sweet rest there must be in the grave.

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In me didst thou exist-and, in my death, see by this image, which is thine own, how utterly thou hast murdered thyself.

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There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.

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That is another of your odd notions," said the Prefect, who had a fashion of calling every thing "odd" that was beyond his comprehension, and thus lived amid an absolute legion of "oddities.

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The fever called "living" Is conquer'd at last.

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There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.

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But in the expression of the countenance, which was beaming all over with smiles, there still lurked (incomprehensible anomalyl) that fitful strain of melancholy which will ever be found inseparable from the perfection of the beautiful.

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Leave my loneliness unbroken

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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.

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It was night, and the rain fell; and falling, it was rain, but, having fallen, it was blood.

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They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

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