Books Quotes by Edgar Allan Poe

15 Books quotes by Edgar Allan Poe

Poe’s fascination with books mirrors his dark, introspective imagination. In fifteen succinct reflections he hints at the uncanny power of stories to haunt, enlighten, and stir the soul, all without overt melodrama.

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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries

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Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man.

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How many good books suffer neglect through the inefficiency of their beginnings!

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It is with literature as with law or empire - an established name is an estate in tenure, or a throne in…

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“If [a short story author's] very initial sentence tend not to the out bringing of this effect, then he has failed in…

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In reading some books we occupy ourselves chiefly with the thoughts of the author; in perusing others, exclusively with our own.

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“Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. Eagerly…

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I am actuated by an ambition which I believe to be an honourable one the ambition of serving the great cause…

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“Depend upon it, after all, Thomas, Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit…

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The usual derivation of the word Metaphysics is not to be sustainedthe science is supposed to take its name from its superiority…

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If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human…

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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…

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It is more than probable that I am not understood; but I fear, indeed, that it is in no manner possible to…

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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…

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“My dear reader, have you seen the bizarre contraption that the inhabitants of this futuristic age carry in their pockets? It is…

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To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.

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“For eyes we have no models in the remotely antique.”

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“During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the…

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Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.

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“I have said that the sole effect of my somewhat childish experiment—that of looking down within the tarn—had been to deepen the first singular…

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“Other friends have flown before — On the morrow he will leave me, as my hopes have flown before.” Quoth the raven, “Nevermore.”

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“To the right and left, as far as the eye could reach, there lay outstretched, like ramparts of the world, lines of horridly black…

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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…

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And the Raven, never flitting, Still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas Just above my chamber door; And his…

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I was forced to fall back upon the unsatisfactory conclusion, that while, beyond doubt, there are combinations of very simple natural objects which have…

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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…

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