"And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting,……" — Edgar Allan Poe
"And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting..."
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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 Flitting Quotes
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one of 28 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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O, once in each man's life, at least, Good luck knocks at his door; And wit to seize the flitting…
— John L. Bates
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It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank clothed with many plants of many kinds with birds singing on the…
— Charles Darwin
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His whole being radiates a pure, wild sweetness, flitting through night woods with little melodious cries, on some cryptic errand.…
— William S. Burroughs
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No other art-medium–neither painting nor poetry–can communicate the specific quality of the dream as well as the film can. When…
— Ingmar Bergman
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Those dreams that on the silent night intrude, and with false flitting shapes our minds delude ... are mere productions…
— Jonathan Swift
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Swarmers run the risk of skittering like water bugs on the surface of life. By being quickly and constantly connected,…
— Joel Garreau
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Once Chuang Chou dreamt he was a butterfly, a butterfly flitting and fluttering around, happy with himself and doing as…
— Zhuangzi
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A butterfly flitting from flower to flower ever remains mine, I lose the one that is netted by me.
— Rabindranath Tagore
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The mind is the most capricious of insects — flitting, fluttering.
— Virginia Woolf
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I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age;…
— Mark Twain
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If you're going to be with someone, you're with them, you're committed to them. I'm not sort of flitting around.
— Nicole Kidman
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It's hard to tell / if we close our eyes or if night / opens in us other starred eyes,…
— Pablo Neruda
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