All Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
- There are two bodies - the rudimental and the complete; corresponding with the two conditions of the worm and the butterfly. What we call "death,"… Bodies
- I have no words alas! to tell the loveliness of loving well Alas
- I must perish in this deplorable folly. Thus, thus, and not otherwise, shall I be lost. I dread the events of the future, not in… Abandon
- A mystery, and a dream, should my early life seem. Dream
- The object, Truth, or the satisfaction of the intellect, and the object, Passion, or the excitement of the heart, are, although attainable, to a certain… Attainable
- I have before suggested that a genuine blackguard is never without a pocket-handkerchief. Blackguard
- In me didst thou exist-and, in my death, see by this image, which is thine own, how utterly thou hast murdered thyself. Death
- The data from the 1990 Harvard Medical Practice Study suggest that 150,000 Americans die every year from doctors' negligence - compared with 38,000 gun deaths… Americans
- The word "Verse" is used here as the term most convenient for expressing, and without pedantry, all that is involved in the consideration of rhythm,… All
- I never can hear a crowd of people singing and gesticulating, all together, at an Italian opera, without fancying myself at Athens, listening to that… All
- The fever called "living" Is conquer'd at last. Called
- The greater amount of truth is impulsively uttered; thus the greater amount is spoken, not written. Amount
- Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heartone… Character
- If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human sentiment, the opportunity… All
- Were the succession of stars endless, then the background of the sky would present us an uniform luminosity, like that displayed by the Galaxy-since there… Able
- A fearful instance of the ill consequences attending upon irascibility - alive, with the qualifications of the dead - dead, with the propensities of the… Alive
- Hear the sledges with the bells, Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air… Air
- Hear the mellow wedding bells, Golden bells! What a world of happiness their harmony foretells Through the balmy air of night How they ring out… Air
- A gentleman with a pug nose is a contradiction in terms. Contradiction
- The higher powers of the reflective intellect are more decidedly and more usefully tasked by the unostentatious game of draughts than by all the elaborate… All
- Sound loves to revel in a summer night. Loves
- All works of art should begin... at the end. All
- If we examine a work of ordinary art, by means of a powerful microscope, all traces of resemblance to nature will disappear - but the… Absolute
- I am excessively slothful, and wonderfully industrious-by fits. There are epochs when any kind of mental exercise is torture, and when nothing yields me pleasure… All
- The true genius shudders at incompleteness. Funny