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Edgar Allan Poe Inspirational Quotes (232)

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It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain, but, once conceived, it haunted me day and night.
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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
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There are two bodies - the rudimental and the complete corresponding with the two conditions of the worm and the butterfly. What we call death, is but the painful metamorphosis. Our present incarnation is progressive, preparatory, temporary. Our future is perfected, ultimate, immortal. The ultimate life is the full design.
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I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
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I have before suggested that a genuine blackguard is never without a pocket-handkerchief.
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From a proud tower in the town, Death looks gigantically down.
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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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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I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
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The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
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Sound-- That stealeth ever on the ear of him Who, musing, gazeth on the distance dim, And sees the darkness coming as a cloud-- Is not its form--its voice--most palpable and loud?
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And much of Madness, and more of Sin, And Horror the soul of the plot.
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Sound loves to revel in a summer night.
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The true genius shudders at incompleteness.
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For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams Of the beautiful Annabel Lee And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes Of the beautiful Annabel Lee And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side Of my darling- my darling- my life and my bride, In the sepulchre there by the sea, In her tomb by the sounding sea.
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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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And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain Thrilled me — filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before So that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating, Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door — Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door — This it is, and nothing more.
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In for ever knowing, we are for ever blessed but to know all were the curse of a fiend
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The death then of a beautiful woman is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world, and equally is it beyond doubt that the lips best suited for such topic are those of a bereaved lover.
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Once upon a midnight dreary
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And so, being young and dipt in folly, I fell in love with melancholy.
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If you are ever drowned or hung, be sure and make a note of your sensations.
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In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.
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A fool, for example, thinks Shakespeare a great poet . . . yet the fool has never read Shakespeare.
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