Edgar Allan Poe Quotes, Dream Quotes, Wind Quotes

We gave the Future to the winds, and slumbered tranquilly in the Present, weaving the dull world around us into dreams.

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We had always dwelled together, beneath a tropical sun, in the Valley of the Many Colored Grass.

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I have great faith in fools,— self-confidence my friends will call it.

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Philosophers have often held dispute As to the seat of thought in man and brute For that the power of thought attends the latter My friend, thy beau, hath made a settled matter, And spite of dogmas current in all ages, One settled fact is better than ten sages. (O,Tempora! O,Mores!)

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I need scarcely observe that a poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul. The value of the poem is in the ratio of this elevating excitement. But all excitements are, through a psychal necessity, transient.

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In me didst thou exist-and, in my death, see by this image, which is thine own, how utterly thou hast murdered thyself.

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The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.

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A man's grammar, like Caesar's wife, must not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.

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How many good books suffer neglect through the inefficiency of their beginnings!

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By late accounts from Rotterdam, that city seems to be in a high state of philosophical excitement. Indeed, phenomena have there occurred of a nature so completely unexpected--so entirely novel--so utterly at variance with preconceived opinions--as to leave no doubt on my mind that long ere this all Europe is in an uproar, all physics in a ferment, all reason and astronomy together by the ears.

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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

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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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There are some qualities, some incorporate things, that have a double life, which thus is made. A type os twin entity which springs from matter and light, envinced in solid and shade.

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The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

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

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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.

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Yes, Heaven is thine; but this Is a world of sweets and sours; Our flowers are merelyflowers.

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There was an iciness, a sinking, a sickening of the heart - an unredeemed dreariness of thought which no goading of the imagination could torture into aught of the sublime

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The fever called "living" Is conquer'd at last.

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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.

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