"And my soul from out that shadow that……" — Edgar Allan Poe
"And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor, Shall be lifted -- Nevermore!"
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Edgar Allan Poe
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323 Quotes by Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe has 323 quotes on this site.
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The goodness of the true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability.
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In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
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The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it…
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... -ev'n with us the breath Of Science dims the mirror of our joy...
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A poem in my opinion, is opposed to a work of science by having for its immediate object, pleasure, not…
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As the strong man exults in his physical ability, delighting in such exercises as call his muscles into action, so…
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Grammar is the analysis of language.
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It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application,…
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If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion,…
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It may be roundly asserted that human ingenuity cannot concoct a cipher which human ingenuity cannot resolve.
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The analytical power should not be confounded with simple ingenuity; for while the analyst is necessarily ingenious, the ingenious man…
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Beauty is the sole legitimate province of the poem.
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More Floating Quotes
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People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on…
— James A. Baldwin
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Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done…
— Edward Abbey
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Whether you've seen angels floating around your bedroom or just found a ray of hope at a lonely moment, choosing…
— Martha Beck
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When you see a fish you don't think of its scales, do you? You think of its speed, its floating,…
— Constantin Brancusi
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See, Heaven is not someplace on a disc in the sky floating around, it's right here amongst us.
— Sylvia Browne
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I don't think we spend enough time in silence, just realizing what's floating around in our noggin.
— Sandra Bullock
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There's an old maxim that says, 'Things that work persist,' which is why there's still Cobol floating around.
— Vinton Cerf
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I won't be able to do what I'm doing forever. There aren't that many scripts floating around for fifty-year-old chicks.
— Cher
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I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.
— Fiona Apple
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I feel like I'm 100 years old. I can't tell you what I did today. I can't tell you what…
— Fiona Apple
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Walking on willow tree roads by a river dappled with peach blossoms, I look for spring light, but am everywhere…
— Wang Wei
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The plague of racism is insidious, entering into our minds as smoothly and quietly and invisibly as floating airborne microbes…
— Maya Angelou
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