All Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
- Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore--While I nodded, nearly napping,… Came
- Over the Mountains Of the Moon, Down the Valley of the Shadow, Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied,- "If you seek for Eldorado. Boldly
- And all I loved, I loved alone. All
- There was much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which… Beautiful
- Sensations are the great things, after all. Should you ever be drowned or hung, be sure and make a note of your sensations; they will… All
- When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket. Appears
- And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy. Dipped
- Ah, broken is the golden bowl! the spirit flown forever! Let the bell toll!-a saintly soul floats on the Stygian river; And, Guy de Vere,… Ah
- Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!” Quoth the raven, “Nevermore. Beak
- And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. Dying
- Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its… Combined
- ...the agony of my soul found vent in one loud, long and final scream of despair. Agony
- But evil things, in robes of sorrow, Assailed the monarch's high estate; (Ah, let us mourn, for never morrow Shall dawn upon him desolate!) And… Ah
- And all my days are trances, And all my nightly dreams Are where thy dark eye glances, And where thy footstep gleams-- In what ethereal… All
- Thy soul shall find itself alone ’Mid dark thoughts of the gray tombstone— Not one, of all the crowd, to pry Into thine hour of… All
- And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain Thrilled me — filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before; So that now, to… Beating
- Read this and thought of you: Through joy and through sorrow, I wrote. Through hunger and through thirst, I wrote. Through good report and through… Allen
- I was a child and she was a child, In this kingdom by the sea; But we loved with a love that was more than… Annabel
- To him, who still would gaze upon the glory of the summer sun, there comes, when that sun will from him part, a sullen hopelessness… From
- In the deepest slumber-no! In delirium-no! In a swoon-no! In death-no! even in the grave all is not lost. All
- I was forced to fall back upon the unsatisfactory conclusion, that while, beyond doubt, there are combinations of very simple natural objects which have the… Affecting
- Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence. Called
- It is a happiness to wonder; -- it is a happiness to dream. Dream
- There is no beauty without some strangeness Beauty
- I found him well educated, with unusual powers of mind, but infected with misanthropy, and subject to perverse moods of alternate enthusiasm and melancholy. Alternate