Edgar Allan Poe Short Quotes

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This - all this - was in the olden Time long ago.

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Beauty is the sole legitimate province of the poem.

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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

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A dirge for the most lovely dead
That ever died so young!

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Wonders and wild fancies... strangely rife among mankind.

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Years of love have been forgot
In the hatred of a minute.

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The plots of God are perfect. The Universe is a plot of God.

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The people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them.

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The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.

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You call it hope-that fire of fire! It is but agony of desire.

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But Psyche uplifting her finger said: Sadly this star I mistrust

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

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And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming.

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

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-ev'n with us the breath Of Science dims the mirror of our joy...

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To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!

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The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow

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And much of Madness, and more of Sin,
And Horror the soul of the plot.

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It is better to be a good deal prolix than even a very little obscure.

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O, human love! thou spirit given,
On Earth, of all we hope in Heaven!

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I have great faith in fools — self-confidence my friends will call it.

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In her sepulcher there by the sea —
In her tomb by the sounding sea.

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"Prophet!" said I, "thing of evil! — prophet still, if bird or devil!"

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I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.

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Is there — is there balm in Gilead? — tell me — tell me, I implore!

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Scorching my seared heart with a pain, not hell shall make me fear again.

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Thus I pacified Psyche and kissed her,
And tempted her out of her gloom.

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Man is an animal that diddles, and there is no animal that diddles but man.

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Indeed, there is an eloquence in true enthusiasm that is not to be doubted.

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And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.

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