Spirituality Quotes by Edgar Allan Poe

15 Spirituality quotes by Edgar Allan Poe

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Poe is best known for his gothic tales, yet his musings on spirituality reveal a surprisingly reflective side. In these 15 short passages he probes the unseen forces that shape our inner world, offering a hauntingly beautiful perspective.

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A poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul.

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...the agony of my soul found vent in one loud, long and final scream of despair.

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To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.

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And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor, Shall be lifted -- Nevermore!

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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

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“we then busied our souls in dreams—reading, writing, or conversing, until warned by the clock of the advent of the true Darkness.”

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

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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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I need scarcely observe that a poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul. The value of…

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Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of…

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Thy soul shall find itself alone ’Mid dark thoughts of the gray tombstone— Not one, of all the crowd, to pry Into…

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“A feeling, for which I have no name, has taken possession of my soul —a sensation which will admit of no analysis,…

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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the…

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Prophet!" said I, "thing of evil! - prophet still, if bird or devil! By that Heaven that bends above us- by that…

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“Very suddenly there came back to my soul motion and sound—the tumultuous motion of the heart, and, in my ears, the sound…

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

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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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