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Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
American
-
Poet
January 19, 1809 - October 7, 1849
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
Edgar Allan Poe
Dreams
Darkness
Long
Dream
Before
Dared
Deep
Doubting
Dreaming
Ever
Fearing
Mortal
Stood
Wondering
I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.
Edgar Allan Poe
Danger
Indeed
Terror
Effect
Abhorrence
Absolute
Except
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.
Edgar Allan Poe
Hope
Dreams
Man
World
Bent
Come
Content
Hundredth
Made
Making
New
Nine
Ninety
Those
True
Who
I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
Edgar Allan Poe
Long
Sanity
Horrible
Insane
Became
Intervals
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.
Edgar Allan Poe
Soul
Value
Only
Need
Deserves
Elevating
Excitement
Excites
Inasmuch
Observe
Poem
Ratio
Scarcely
Title
I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
Edgar Allan Poe
Faith
Wise
Man
Humanity
Active
Effect
Exertion
Happy
He
Human
More
Nor
Now
Only
Than
Think
Will
Years
Years Ago
I Think
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
Edgar Allan Poe
Romantic
Dream
See
Within
Seem
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
Edgar Allan Poe
Fear
Religion
Poetry
Imagination
Evolved
Fraud
Friend
Greed
My Friend
Out
Simply
In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.
Edgar Allan Poe
Point
Obscure
Out
Because
Case
Discussed
Excess
Hundred
Ninety-Nine
Remaining
They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Edgar Allan Poe
Imagination
Day
Night
Dream
Escape
Cognizant
Many
Only
Things
Those
Which
Who
Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
Edgar Allan Poe
Stupidity
Talent
Misconception
The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
Edgar Allan Poe
May
Found
Verse
Possibly
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We loved with a love that was more than love.
Edgar Allan Poe
Love
More
Loved
Than
I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.
Edgar Allan Poe
Beauty
Poetry
Words
Creation
Brief
Define
Would
The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
Edgar Allan Poe
Silence
True
Genius
Saying
Everything
Should
Something
True Genius
Which
I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.
Edgar Allan Poe
Faith
Great
Friends
Fools
Call
Great Faith
Self-Confidence
It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
Edgar Allan Poe
Future
Look
Think
Dream
Existence
Fancy
Irrational
Means
Our
Present
Shall
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.
Edgar Allan Poe
Midnight
Weak
Weary
Once
Dreary
While
Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
Edgar Allan Poe
Life
Man
Happy
Will
Because
Chiefly
Ever
Expecting
He
Real
Real Life
Soon
Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
Edgar Allan Poe
Beauty
Soul
Tears
Whatever
Development
Excites
Invariably
Kind
Sensitive
Supreme
Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'
Edgar Allan Poe
Nature
Art
Man
Soul
Accurate
Artist
Call
Define
However
Imitation
Mere
Name
Perceive
Reproduction
Sacred
Senses
Should
Term
Through
Veil
Very
Were
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
Friendship
Heart
Man
Brute
Directly
Fidelity
Frequent
Goes
Had
Him
Mere
Occasion
Paltry
Something
Test
Unselfish
Which
Who
That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
Edgar Allan Poe
Man
Brave
Who
Suits
Afraid
Coward
Either
Him
Seem
Truly
In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.
Edgar Allan Poe
Me
Will
Purpose
Nothing
Absolutely
Bold
Criticism
Foe
Friend
Just
Shall
Turn
The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
Edgar Allan Poe
Time
Imagination
Nose
Mob
Any
Led
Quietly
With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
Edgar Allan Poe
Me
Passion
Poetry
Purpose
Been
To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.
Edgar Allan Poe
Man
Great
Greatness
Great Man
Attain
Himself
Little
Little Man
Vilify
Way
Which
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.
Edgar Allan Poe
Think
Test
Popularity
Should
Case
Cases
Considered
Few
Mere
Merit
Proper
Which
I Think
That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.
Edgar Allan Poe
Beautiful
Pure
Pleasure
Most
Contemplation
Derived
Elevating
Intense
Maintain
Once
Which
A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.
Edgar Allan Poe
Religion
Men
Feel
Charity
About
Against
Argument
Christ
Crime
Made
Only
Strong
Understand
Which
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
Edgar Allan Poe
Power
Mind
Words
Reality
Impress
Exquisite
Horror
Without
The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.
Edgar Allan Poe
Fire
World
Admire
Reason
Critic
Generous
Poet
Taught
Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
Edgar Allan Poe
Science
Intelligence
Madness
Us
Sublimity
Taught
If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
Edgar Allan Poe
You
Wish
Forget
Anything
Make
Note
Remembered
Spot
Thing
Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.
Edgar Allan Poe
Who
Said
Most
Dislike
Able
Been
Least
Puns
Them
Those
Utter
Has-Been
It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
Edgar Allan Poe
Nature
Truth
Most
Some
General
Particular
Richest
Superficial
It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.
Edgar Allan Poe
Never
Will
Always
Than
Analytic
Fact
Fanciful
Found
Imaginative
In Fact
Ingenious
Otherwise
Truly
I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.
Edgar Allan Poe
I Am
Disaster
Weakness
Above
Am
Atrocity
Between
Cause
Effect
Establish
Seeking
Sequence
The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
Edgar Allan Poe
Death
Beautiful
World
Beautiful Woman
Most
Poetical
Topic
Unquestionably
Woman
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
Experience
Will
True
Always
Arises
Irrelevant
Larger
Perhaps
Philosophy
Portion
Seemingly
Show
Shown
Vast
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?
Edgar Allan Poe
Life
Best
Death
Who
Begins
Boundaries
Divide
Ends
Other
Say
Shadowy
Shall
Vague
Where
Which
Lord, help my poor soul.
Edgar Allan Poe
Soul
Poor
Help
Lord
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