Edgar Allan Poe Quotes, Mean Quotes, Poor Quotes

I have made no money. I am as poor now as ever I was in my life - except in hope, which is by no means bankable.

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I must perish in this deplorable folly. Thus, thus, and not otherwise, shall I be lost. I dread the events of the future, not in themselves, but in their results. I shudder at the thought of any, even the most trivial, incident, which may operate upon this intolerable agitation of soul. I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect-in terror. In this unnerved-in this pitiable condition-I feel that the period will sooner or later arrive when I must abandon life and reason together, in some struggle with the grim phantasm, FEAR.

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The best things in life make you sweaty.

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If you are ever drowned or hung, be sure and make a note of your sensations.

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It is the curse of a certain order of mind, that it can never rest satisfied with the consciousness of its ability to do a thing.Still less is it content with doing it. It must both know and show how it was done.

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He must be theory-mad beyond redemption who ... shall ... persist in attempting to reconcile the obstinate oils and waters of Poetry and Truth.

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Sometimes I’m terrified of my heart; of its constant hunger for whatever it is it wants. The way it stops and starts.

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Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded.

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If a poem hasn't ripped apart your soul; you haven't experienced poetry.

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The true genius shudders at incompleteness.

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[The daguerreotype] itself must undoubtedly be regarded as the most important, and perhaps the most extraordinary triumph of modern science.

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The object, Truth, or the satisfaction of the intellect, and the object, Passion, or the excitement of the heart, are, although attainable, to a certain extent, in poetry, far more readily attainable in prose.

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Every moment of the night Forever changing places And they put out the star-light With the breath from their pale faces

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Ah, broken is the golden bowl! the spirit flown forever! Let the bell toll!-a saintly soul floats on the Stygian river; And, Guy de Vere, hast thou no tear?-weep now or nevermore!

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How much more intense is the excitement wrought in the feelings of a crowd by the contemplation of human agony, than that brought about by the most appalling spectacles of inanimate matter.

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The people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them.

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We gave him a hearty welcome, for there was nearly half as much of the entertaining as of the contemptible about the man.

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But in the expression of the countenance, which was beaming all over with smiles, there still lurked (incomprehensible anomalyl) that fitful strain of melancholy which will ever be found inseparable from the perfection of the beautiful.

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The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

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Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best have gone to their eternal rest.

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