Edgar Allan Poe Quotes - Page 8

Quotes about:

• I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Men, Week, Old Man

  Edgar Allan Poe (2014). “Complete Collection of Edgar Allan Poe - 170+ eBooks (Complete Tales, Poems, Novels, Essays, Miscellaneous, Play)”, p.409, Ageless Reads

  14 Copy quote

• There was much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which might have excited disgust.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Beautiful, Littles, Might

  Edgar Allan Poe (2014). “Complete Collection of Edgar Allan Poe - 170+ eBooks (Complete Tales, Poems, Novels, Essays, Miscellaneous, Play)”, p.350, Ageless Reads

  8 Copy quote

• The analytical power should not be confounded with simple ingenuity; for while the analyst is necessarily ingenious, the ingenious man is often remarkably incapable of analysis.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Power, Simple, Men

  Edgar Allan Poe (2006). “The Best of Poe”, p.29, Prestwick House Inc

  16 Copy quote

• Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Men, Thinking, Mystery

  Edgar Allan Poe, Stuart Levine, Susan Levine (1976). “The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe: An Annotated Edition”, p.370, University of Illinois Press

  5 Copy quote

• The greater amount of truth is impulsively uttered; thus the greater amount is spoken, not written.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Truth, Greater, Written

  Edgar Allan Poe, Gary Richard Thompson (1984). “Essays and Reviews”, p.1322, Library of America

  6 Copy quote

• The idea of God, infinity, or spirit stands for the possible attempt at an impossible conception.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Ideas, Atheism, Infinity

  12 Copy quote

• A gentleman with a pug nose is a contradiction in terms.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Gentleman, Pugs, Noses

  Edgar Allan Poe, Gary Richard Thompson (1984). “Essays and Reviews”, p.1340, Library of America

  8 Copy quote

• Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore--While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As if some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. "'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door--Only this and nothing more.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Sad, Rap, Doors

  "The Raven" l. 1 (1845)

  23 Copy quote

• I am excessively slothful, and wonderfully industrious-by fits. There are epochs when any kind of mental exercise is torture, and when nothing yields me pleasure but the solitary communion with the 'mountains & the woods'-the 'altars' of Byron. I have thus rambled and dreamed away whole months, and awake, at last, to a sort of mania for composition. Then I scribble all day, and read all night, so long as the disease endures.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Depression, Exercise, Night

  Edgar Allan Poe (2006). “The Portable Edgar Allan Poe”, p.488, Penguin

  18 Copy quote

• It is more than probable that I am not understood; but I fear, indeed, that it is in no manner possible to convey to the mind of the merely general reader, an adequate idea of that nervous intensity of interest with which, in my case, the powers of meditation (not to speak technically) busied and buried themselves, in the contemplation of even the most ordinary objects of the universe.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Ideas, Meditation, Mind

  Edgar Allan Poe (1927). “Tales by Edgar Allan Poe”, p.29, Dimitrios Spyridon Chytiris

  7 Copy quote

• Hear the sledges with the bells, Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night, While the stars that oversprinkle All the Heavens seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight: Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells From the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells-- From the jingling and the tingling of the bells.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Stars, Night, Air

  "The Bells" l. 6 (1849)

  7 Copy quote

• There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Love, Heart, Sacrifice

  1843 'The Black Cat', in the United States Saturday Post,19 Aug.

  22 Copy quote

• Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. In their gray visions they obtain glimpses of eternity, and thrill, in waking, to find that they have been upon the verge of the great secret. In snatches, they learn something of the wisdom which is of good, and more of the mere knowledge which is of evil.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Dream, Night, Evil

  Edgar Allan Poe (2012). “Complete Tales & Poems”, p.649, Vintage

  4 Copy quote

• The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all those more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Struggle, Player, Mind

  Edgar Allan Poe (2008). “Edgar Allan Poe's Annotated Short Stories”, p.352, Bottletree Books LLC

  70 Copy quote

• Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Truth, Philosophy, Irrelevance

  Edgar Allan Poe, Stuart Levine, Susan Levine (1976). “The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe: An Annotated Edition”, p.213, University of Illinois Press

  22 Copy quote

• But Psyche uplifting her finger said: Sadly this star I mistrust

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Uplifting, Stars, Said

  Edgar Allan Poe (2008). “Edgar Allan Poe's Annotated Poems”, p.124, Bottletree Books LLC

  4 Copy quote

• By the grey woods, by the swamp, where the toad and newt encamp, by the dismal tarns and pools, where dwell the Gouls. By each spot the most unholy, by each nook most melancholy, there the traveller meets, aghast, sheeted memories of the Past. Shrouded forms that start and sigh, as they pass the wanderer by. White-robed forms of friends long given; In agony, to the Earth - and Heaven.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Memories, Past, Agony

  Edgar Allan Poe (1927). “The best known works of Edgar Allan Poe: poems, tales, essays, criticisms”

  19 Copy quote

• Lord help my poor soul.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Soul, Helping, Lord

  Edgar Allan Poe, Brod Bagert (1995). “Edgar Allan Poe”, p.7, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

  6 Copy quote

• I was cautious in what I said before the young lady; for I could not be sure that she was sane; and, in fact, there was a certain restless brilliancy about her eyes that half led me to imagine she was not.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Eye, Half, Facts

  Edgar Allan Poe, Stuart Levine, Susan Levine (1976). “The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe: An Annotated Edition”, p.597, University of Illinois Press

  27 Copy quote

• A dirge for her the doubly dead in that she died so young.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Young, Died

  Edgar Allan Poe (2012). “The Raven and Other Favorite Poems”, p.17, Courier Corporation

  18 Copy quote

• The death then of a beautiful woman is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world, and equally is it beyond doubt that the lips best suited for such topic are those of a bereaved lover.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Love, Life, Beautiful

  Edgar Allan Poe (2016). “Edgar Allan Poe's Complete Poetical Works”, p.149, Lulu.com

  10 Copy quote

• Ceux qui revent eveilles ont conscience de 1000 choses qui echapent a ceux qui ne revent qu'endormis. The one who has day dream are aware of 1000 things that the one who dreams only when he sleeps will never understand. (it sounds better in french, I do what I can with my translation...)

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Dream, Sleep, Sound

  7 Copy quote

• There is no passion in nature so demoniacally impatient, as that of him who, shuddering upon the edge of a precipice, thus meditates a Plunge.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Passion, Impatient, Plunge

  Edgar Allan Poe (2012). “Edgar Allan Poe: Selected Poetry and Tales”, p.398, Broadview Press

  7 Copy quote

• For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams
  of the beautiful Annabel Lee

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Beautiful, Dream, Moon

  Edgar Allan Poe (2014). “Classics Reimagined, Edgar Allan Poe”, p.196, Race Point Publishing

  4 Copy quote

• A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on. (Montresor)

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Burned, Stills, Candle

  9 Copy quote

Page 8 of 16

First

← Prev

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin