Love Quotes by Edgar Allan Poe

50 Love quotes by Edgar Allan Poe

Love is painted as a dark, dreamy force that haunts the speaker’s thoughts. Poe’s verses speak of a love that feels stronger than age or wisdom. The poems also echo a mournful remembrance that never fades, even as time passes.

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“I love me a good sheep.”

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I fell in love with melancholy

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The true genius shudders at incompleteness.

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Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance.

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We love with a love that was more than love.

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To observe attentively is to remember distinctly.

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There is no beauty without some strangeness

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Yes," I said, "for the love of God!

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The greater amount of truth is impulsively uttered; thus the greater amount is spoken, not written.

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“When I was young and filled with folly, I fell in love with melancholy”

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“Because it was my crime to have no one on Earth who cared for me, or loved me.”

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That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.

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I have no words alas! to tell the loveliness of loving well

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“You are rich, respected, admired, beloved; you are happy, as once I was. ”

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I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.

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Me volví loco, con largos intervalos de horrible cordura.

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The most natural, and, consequently, the truest and most intense of the human affections are those which arise in the heart as…

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May the love hidden deep inside your heart find the love waiting in your dreams. May the laughter that you find in…

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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…

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In me didst thou exist-and, in my death, see by this image, which is thine own, how utterly thou hast murdered thyself.

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From childhood's hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My…

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If we don't feel love with our heart, then how come that's where it hurts when someone doesn't love you back?

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And all my days are trances, And all my nightly dreams Are where thy dark eye glances, And where thy footstep gleams--…

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Alas! for that accursed time They bore thee o'er the billow, From love to titled age and crime, And an unholy pillow!…

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“But our love it was stronger by far than the love Of those who were older than we— Of many far wiser…

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But our love was stronger by far than the love Of those who were older than we Of many far wiser than…

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Thou wouldst be loved? - then let thy heart From its present pathway part not! Being everything which now thou art, Be…

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It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea, That a maiden there lived whom you may…

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Yet we met; and fate bound us together at the alter,and I never spoke of passion nor thought of love. She, however…

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There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has…

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I heed not that my earthly lot Hath - little of Earth in it - That years of love have been forgot…

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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…

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“From the dim regions beyond the mountains at the upper end of our encircled domain, there crept out a narrow and deep…

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“It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea, That a maiden there lived whom you may…

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The Merchant, to Secure His Treasure The merchant, to secure his treasure, Conveys it in a borrowed name: Euphelia serves to grace…

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“ The Lake In spring of youth it was my lot To haunt of the wide world a spot The which I…

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“And I lie so composedly, Now in my bed (Knowing her love) That you fancy me dead— And I rest so contentedly,…

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And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.

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And so, being young and dipt in folly, I fell in love with melancholy.

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

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