"It was night, and the rain fell; and……" — Edgar Allan Poe
"It was night, and the rain fell; and falling, it was rain, but, having fallen, it was blood."
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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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The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela,…
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.
— Saint Augustine
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The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's…
— Richard Bach
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Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in…
— Honore de Balzac
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The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins.
— Clara Barton
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The Eucharistic sacrifice of the body and blood of Christ embraces in turn the mystery of our Lord's continuing passion…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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In morals, theosophy builds its teachings on the unity, seeing in each form the expression of a common life, and…
— Annie Besant
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The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron…
— Otto von Bismarck
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Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade…
— Joe Biden
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But the love of adventure was in father's blood.
— Buffalo Bill
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I'm a fountain of blood. In the shape of a girl.
— Bjork
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Everybody's always asking me about my blood pressure. They did an interview once where they hooked me up to a…
— Lewis Black
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