World Quotes by Edgar Allan Poe

16 World quotes by Edgar Allan Poe

Poe’s gothic sensibility isn’t limited to haunted houses; these 16 quotes reveal how he viewed the broader, often unsettling, aspects of human existence.

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The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.

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The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.

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The customs of the world are so many conventional follies.

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The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.

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Yes, Heaven is thine; but this Is a world of sweets and sours; Our flowers are merelyflowers.

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The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is…

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We gave the Future to the winds, and slumbered tranquilly in the Present, weaving the dull world around us into dreams.

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The death then of a beautiful woman is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world, and equally is it beyond doubt…

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There are moments when, even to the sober eye of Reason, the world of our sad humanity must assume the aspect of…

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If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human…

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If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human…

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Hear the mellow wedding bells, Golden bells! What a world of happiness their harmony foretells Through the balmy air of night How…

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Hear the sledges with the bells, Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In…

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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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In visions of the dark night I have dreamed of joy departed- But a waking dream of life and light Hath left…

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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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“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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