Stills Quotes by Edgar Allan Poe

14 Stills quotes by Edgar Allan Poe

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Edgar Allan Poe’s fourteen musings on stillness blend his signature gloom with a reflective calm. The paradox of his darkness and quiet creates a hauntingly beautiful meditation.

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And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting...

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Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore...

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A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on. (Montresor)

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Even for those to whom life and death are equal jests. There are some things that are still held in respect.

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To him, who still would gaze upon the glory of the summer sun, there comes, when that sun will from him part,…

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It is the curse of a certain order of mind, that it can never rest satisfied with the consciousness of its ability…

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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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And the Raven, never flitting, Still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas Just above my chamber door;…

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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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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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In spite of the air of fablethe public were still not at all disposed to receive it as fable. I thence concluded…

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And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain Thrilled me — filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before; So…

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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…

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O, Times! O, Manners! It is my opinion That you are changing sadly your dominion I mean the reign of manners hath…

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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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“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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