"And then there stole into my fancy, like……" — Edgar Allan Poe
"And then there stole into my fancy, like a rich musical note, the thought of what sweet rest there must be in the grave."
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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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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
— Aristotle
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I don't think of myself as a metafictional writer at all. I think of myself as a classic writer, a…
— Paul Auster
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I don't go to the cool, trendy restaurants. I go to either the holes in the wall or the super-fancy…
— Tyra Banks
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I love inventive food, but I want the classic dishes to taste like how I remember them. I get a…
— Drew Barrymore
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I'm a carb queen. I'll always order macaroni and cheese, but I don't want it to be fancy. I want…
— Drew Barrymore
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I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and…
— Charles Baudelaire
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I burned out my drawing hand by using it too much. The common word for it is writer's cramp. The…
— Scott Adams
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I don't fancy myself a political commentator. I hate politics. I hate it.
— Glenn Beck
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My movies are unadorned, they're not particularly fancy, I think they're kind of workmanlike in some ways, focusing on the…
— Ben Affleck
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They say revenge is a dish best eaten cold, but for most people, by the time it's ready to eat,…
— Jo Brand
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The best food is in Chicago. There are great restaurants everywhere, from fancy places to burger joints.
— Steve Carell
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When I entered high school I was an A-student, but not for long. I wanted the fancy clothes. I wanted…
— Benjamin Carson
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