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Only Quotes by Edgar Allan Poe
- In the marginalia ... we talk only to ourselves; we therefore talk freshly - boldly - originally - with abandonment - without conceit.
- Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man.
- A poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul.
- 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…
- If we examine a work of ordinary art, by means of a powerful microscope, all traces of resemblance to nature will disappear - but the…
- Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.
- I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active…
- A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds…
- Invisible things are the only realities.
- Ceux qui revent eveilles ont conscience de 1000 choses qui echapent a ceux qui ne revent qu'endormis. The one who has day dream are aware…
- By a route obscure and lonely Haunted by ill angels only, Where an eidolon, named NIGHT, On a black throne reigns upright, I have reached…
- 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…
- Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.
- 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…
- I have not only labored solely for the benefit of others (receiving for myself a miserable pittance), but have been forced to model my thoughts…
- A man's grammar, like Caesar's wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.
- [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…
- 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,…
- Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing, Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortals ever dared to dream before; But the silence was…
- The realities of the world affected me as visions, and as visions only, while the wild ideas of the land of dreams became, in turn,—not…
- They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
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