Edgar Allan Poe Quotes, Stars Quotes, Night Quotes

Every moment of the night Forever changing places And they put out the star-light With the breath from their pale faces

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Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.

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Deep in earth my love is lying And I must weep alone.

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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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Not hear it? --yes, I hear it, and have heard it. Long --long --long --many minutes, many hours, many days, have I heard it --yet I dared not --oh, pity me, miserable wretch that I am! --I dared not --I dared not speak! We have put her living in the tomb!

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In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.

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Even for those to whom life and death are equal jests. There are some things that are still held in respect.

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I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom.

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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.

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I might refer at once, if necessary, to a hundred well authenticated instances. One of very remarkable character, and of which the circumstances may be fresh in the memory of some of my readers, occurred, not very long ago, in the neighboring city of Baltimore, where it occasioned a painful, intense, and widely extended excitement.

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Truth is not always in a well. In fact, as regards the more important knowledge, I do believe that she is invariably superficial. The depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found.

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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 winged seraphs of heaven Coveted her and me.

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Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.

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Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the nightly shore - Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore! Quoth the raven, `Nevermore.

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The realities of the world affected me as visions, and as visions only, while the wild ideas of the land of dreams became, in turn,—not the material of my every-day existence--but in very deed that existence utterly and solely in itself.

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That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

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Beauty is the sole legitimate province of the poem.

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It may be roundly asserted that human ingenuity cannot concoct a cipher which human ingenuity cannot resolve.

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There is no passion in nature so demoniacally impatient, as that of him who, shuddering upon the edge of a precipice, thus meditates a Plunge.

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Believe me, there exists no such dilemma as that in which a gentleman is placed when he is forced to reply to a blackguard.

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