It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
In visions of the dark night I have dreamed of joy departed-- But a waking dream of life and light Hath left… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
In visions of the dark night I have dreamed of joy departed- But a waking dream of life and light Hath left… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
...for her whom in life thou dids't abhor, in death thou shalt adore — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
The rain came down upon my head - unshelter'd. And the wind rendered me mad and def and blind. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“There seemed a deep sense of life and joy about all; and although no airs blew from out the Heavens, yet everything… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Finally on Sunday morning, October 7, 1849, "He became quiet and seemed to rest for a short time. Then, gently, moving his… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
The painter stood entranced before the work which he hadwrought;... he grew tremulous and ... crying with a loud voice, This is… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
No thinking being lives who, at some luminous point of his life of thought, has not felt himself lost amid the surges… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Thank Heaven! The crisis /The danger is past, and the lingering illness, is over at last /, and the fever called ''Living''… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
The death then of a beautiful woman is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world, and equally is it beyond doubt… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
I have been happy, though in a dream. I have been happy-and I love the theme: Dreams! in their vivid colouring of… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“There are things around us and about, of which I can render no distinct account--Things material and spiritual; heaviness in the atmosphere;… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“Dreams! in their vivid coloring of life, As in that fleeting, shadowy, misty strife Of semblance with reality, which brings To the… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“To-day I wear these chains, and am HERE. To-morrow I shall be fetterless!--BUT WHERE?” — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
There are some qualities, some incorporate things, that have a double life, which thus is made. A type os twin entity which… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
In going under the water I had been obliged to let go my hold upon the rope; and finding that I was… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
A fearful instance of the ill consequences attending upon irascibility - alive, with the qualifications of the dead - dead, with the… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
And so, being young and dipt in folly, I fell in love with melancholy. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“From childhood’s hour I have not been As others were—I have not seen As others saw—I could not bring My passions from a common… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
There is no passion in nature so demoniacally impatient, as that of him who, shuddering upon the edge of a precipice, thus meditates a… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“A skillful literary artist has constructed a tale. If wise, he has not fashioned his thoughts to accommodate his incidents; but having conceived, with… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“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… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
And all my days are trances, And all my nightly dreams Are where thy dark eye glances, And where thy footstep gleams-- In what… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“Other friends have flown before — On the morrow he will leave me, as my hopes have flown before.” Quoth the raven, “Nevermore.” — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“To the right and left, as far as the eye could reach, there lay outstretched, like ramparts of the world, lines of horridly black… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Men die nightly in their beds, wringing the hands of ghostly confessors ... on account of the hideousness of mysteries which will not suffer… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
