"And travellers, now, within that valley, Through the……" — Edgar Allan Poe
"And travellers, now, within that valley, Through the red-litten windows see Vast forms, that move fantastically To a discordant melody, While, like a ghastly rapid river, Through the pale door A hideous throng rush out forever And laugh — but smile no more."
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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 Discordant Quotes
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one of 27 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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All the unhallowed beauty I have found; All free - discordant shrills and form-defying wonders above ground, like writhen trees…
— Unknown Author
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Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one…
— Heraclitus
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Man's music is seen as a means of restoring the soul, as well as confused and discordant bodily afflictions, to…
— Plato
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You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of…
— Edmund Burke
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Nothing could be more jolting and discordant with the vision of today's intellectuals than the fact that it was businessmen,…
— Thomas Sowell
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Seated one day at the organ, I was weary and ill at ease, and my fingers wandered idly over the…
— Adelaide Anne Procter
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Praise and Prayer PRAISE is devotion fit for mighty minds, The diff'ring world's agreeing sacrifice; Where Heaven divided faiths united…
— William Davenant
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I have tasted a thrill in fellowship with God which has made anything discordant with God disgusting.
— Frank Laubach
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The universe is an emanation of mind. As human consciousness evolves in an accelerated spiral, we are being compelled to…
— Daniel Pinchbeck
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Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements; sickness is the discord of the elements infused into the living body.
— Leonardo da Vinci
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Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements.
— Leonardo da Vinci
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The Soviet Union was brought down by a strange global coalition of Western European conservatives, Eastern European nationalists, Russian liberals,…
— David Frum
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