Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.
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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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That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
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And now have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the senses? - now, I say, there came to my ears a low, dull, quick sound, such as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton. I knew that sound too. It was the beating of the old man's heart. It increased my fury, as the beating of a drum stimulates the soldier into courage.
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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.
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TRUE! - nervous - very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?
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Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.
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I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
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It was many and many a year ago,In a kingdom by the sea,That a maiden lived whom you may knowBy the name of Annabel Lee; - And this maiden she lived with no other thoughtThan to love and be loved by me.
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Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December;And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
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'Get thee back into the tempest and the Night's Plutonian shore!Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken!Leave my loneliness unbroken! - quit the bust above my door!Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!' Quoth the Raven, 'Nevermore.'
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Keeping time, time, time,In a sort of Runic rhyme,To the tintinnabulation that so musically wellsFrom the bells, bells, bells, bells,Bells, bells, bells.
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Can it be fancied that Deity ever vindictivelyMade in his image a mannikin merely to madden it?
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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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The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.
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But our love it was stronger by far than the loveOf those who were older than we - Of many far wiser than we - And neither the angels in Heaven aboveNor the demons down under the seaCan ever dissever my soul from the soulOf the beautiful Annabel Lee
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It is with literature as with law or empire - an established name is an estate in tenure, or a throne in possession.
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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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Gaily bedight,A gallant knight,In sunshine and in shadow, Had journeyed long,Singing a song,In search of Eldorado.
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The higher powers of the reflective intellect are more decidedly and more usefully tasked by the unostentatious game of draughts than by all the elaborate frivolity of chess.
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There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.
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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
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It is impossible to describe, or to imagine, the deep, the blissful sense of relief which the absence of the detested creature occasioned in my bosom. It did not make its appearance during the night - and thus for one night at least, since its introduction into the house, I soundly and tranquilly slept; aye, slept even with the burden of murder upon my soul!