All Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
- There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion. Chords
- We gave him a hearty welcome, for there was nearly half as much of the entertaining as of the contemptible about the man.. Contemptible
- I am SHADOW, and my dwelling is near to the Catacombs of Ptolemais, and hard by those dim plains of Helusion which border upon the… Accents
- I could have clasped the red walls to my bosom as a garment of eternal peace. "Death," I said, "any death but that of the… Any
- Perversity is the human thirst for self-torture. Human
- To be thoroughly conversant with Man’s heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of Despair Clasped
- Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute. Been
- O, Times! O, Manners! It is my opinion That you are changing sadly your dominion I mean the reign of manners hath long ceased, For… All
- Philosophers have often held dispute As to the seat of thought in man and brute For that the power of thought attends the latter My… Age
- And have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the sense? --now, I say, there came to my… Acuteness
- THE thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge. You, who so well… Avenged
- Not hear it? --yes, I hear it, and have heard it. Long --long --long --many minutes, many hours, many days, have I heard it --yet… Dared
- For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes… All
- When, indeed, men speak of Beauty, they mean, precisely, not a quality, as is supposed, but an effect - they refer, in short, just to… Beauty
- Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day; or the agonies which are have their origins in ecstasies which might have been. Agonies
- Even for those to whom life and death are equal jests. There are some things that are still held in respect. Death
- The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my… Body
- And travellers, now, within that valley, Through the red-litten windows see Vast forms, that move fantastically To a discordant melody, While, like a ghastly rapid… Discordant
- Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear. Belief
- Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore. Inspirational
- A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him… Avenger
- Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. In their gray visions they obtain glimpses… Been
- He knew that Hop-Frog was not fond of wine; for it excited the poor cripple almost to madness; and madness is no comfortable feeling. Comfortable
- That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses. Inspirational
- That the play is the tragedy, “Man,” And its hero, the Conqueror Worm. Conqueror