Nature Quotes by Edgar Allan Poe

16 Nature quotes by Edgar Allan Poe

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Poe’s nature passages carry his signature gloom, turning moonlit forests and stormy seas into stages for the human psyche. The verses linger like a haunting echo in a dimly lit wood.

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

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“I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth.I heard many things in hell.”

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The reproduction of what the senses perceive in nature through the veil of the soul.

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It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.

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In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.

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There is no passion in nature so demoniacally impatient, as that of him who, shuddering upon the edge of a precipice, thus…

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Life is for the strong, to be lived by the strong and if need be, taken by the strong. The weak were…

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“but it is a trait in the perversity of human nature to reject the obvious and the ready, for the far-distant and…

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Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term art, I should call it the Reproduction of what the senses perceive…

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“Ah, Death, the spectre which sate at all feasts! How often, Monos, did we lose ourselves in speculations upon its nature! How…

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There might be a class of beings, human once, but now to humanity invisible, for whose scrutiny, and for whose refined appreciation…

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If we examine a work of ordinary art, by means of a powerful microscope, all traces of resemblance to nature will disappear…

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Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive…

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A fearful instance of the ill consequences attending upon irascibility - alive, with the qualifications of the dead - dead, with the…

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In the one instance, the dreamerloses sight of this object in a wilderness of deductions and suggestionsuntilhe finds the incitamentum, or first…

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“Misery is manifold. The wretchedness of earth is multiform. Overreaching the wide horizon as the rainbow, its hues are as various as…

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

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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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“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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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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