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Name Quotes by Edgar Allan Poe
- For years your name never passed my lips, while my soul drank in, with a delirious thirst, all that was uttered in my presence respecting…
- The Merchant, to Secure His Treasure The merchant, to secure his treasure, Conveys it in a borrowed name: Euphelia serves to grace my measure, But…
- It is with literature as with law or empire - an established name is an estate in tenure, or a throne in possession.
- The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist
- Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the nightly shore - Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore! Quoth the…
- Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through…
- Prophet!" said I, "thing of evil! - prophet still, if bird or devil! By that Heaven that bends above us- by that God we both…
- [E]very plot, worth the name, must be elaborated to its dénouement before anything be attempted with the pen. It is only with the dénouement constantly…
- Yes I now feel that it was then on that evening of sweet dreams- that the very first dawn of human love burst upon the…
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- These big-package releases. There should be a cute name for them. — Julian Assange
- Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything… — Francis of Assisi
- Let us consider the glorious Saint Paul: it seems that no other name fell from his lips than that of Jesus, because… — Teresa of Avila
- Some people will go to the opening of an envelope. They live their lives in the public eye and get off on… — Jensen Ackles
- If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects… — Gaston Bachelard
- For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages. — Francis Bacon
- It's true that I don't rearrange that much in the fiction, but I feel if you change even one name or the… — Nicholson Baker
- I am a quick study - I can memorize a script in an hour - but I can't remember a name three… — Don Adams
- Models now need to promote themselves, think like businesswomen and diversify their careers by doing other things. Chances are very slim that… — Tyra Banks
- I want to feel passion, I want to feel pain. I want to weep at the sound of your name. Come make… — Joey Lauren Adams
- Cartoonist was the weirdest name I finally let myself have. I would never say it. When I heard it I silently thought,… — Lynda Barry