Edgar Allan Poe Quotes About Demons

Quotes about: Demons

• The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body; and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrilled every fibre of my frame.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Soul, Body, Flight

  Edgar Allan Poe (1927). “Tales by Edgar Allan Poe”, p.35, Dimitrios Spyridon Chytiris

• And the Raven, never flitting, Still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas Just above my chamber door; And his eyes have all the seeming Of a demon's that is dreaming, And the lamplight o'er him streaming Throws his shadow on the floor, And my soul from out that shadow, That lies floating on the floor, Shall be lifted - nevermore.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Dream, Lying, Eye

  "The Raven" l. 107 (1845)

• But our love was stronger by far than the love Of those who were older than we Of many far wiser than we And neither the angels in heaven above, Nor the demons down under the sea, Can ever dissever my soul from the soul Of the beautiful Annabel Lee.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Beautiful, Angel, Sea

  Edgar Allan Poe (1912). “The Bells and Other Poems”, p.13, Library of Alexandria

• ...And, all at once, the moon arouse through the thin ghastly mist, And was crimson in color... And they lynx which dwelleth forever in the tomb, came out therefrom. And lay down at the feet of the demon. And looked at him steadily in the face.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Moon, Color, Feet

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