May Quotes by Edgar Allan Poe

15 May quotes by Edgar Allan Poe

Poe’s shadowed imagination casts May in an unexpected light. Fifteen lines reveal the month’s more mysterious and haunting facets.

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It may be roundly asserted that human ingenuity cannot concoct a cipher which human ingenuity cannot resolve.

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

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In other words, I believed, and still do believe, that truth, is frequently of its own essence, superficial, and that, in many…

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It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve.

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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 sole purpose is to provide infinite springs, at which the soul may allay the eternal thirst TO KNOW which is forever…

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The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for…

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My next thought concerned the choice of an impression, or effect, to be conveyed: and here I may as well observe that,…

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The word "Verse" is used here as the term most convenient for expressing, and without pedantry, all that is involved in the…

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We now demand the light artillery of the intellect; we need the curt, the condensed, the pointed, the readily diffused - in…

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Few persons can be made to believe that it is not quite an easy thing to invent a method of secret writing…

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In death - no! even in the grave all is not lost. Else there is no immortality for man. Arousing from the…

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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 clear that a poem may be improperly brief. Undue brevity degenerates into mere epigrammatism. A very short poem, while now…

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I must perish in this deplorable folly. Thus, thus, and not otherwise, shall I be lost. I dread the events of the…

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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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