QUOTES by Edgar Allan Poe
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"There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion, even by the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made."
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"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."
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"I call to mind flatness and dampness; and then all is madness - the madness of a memory which busies itself among forbidden things."
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"The depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found."
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"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,"
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"I stand amid the roar Of a surf-tormented shore, And I hold within my hand Grains of golden sand- How few! yet how they creep Through my fingers to the deep, While I weep- while I weep!"
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"In our endeavors to recall to memory something long forgotten, we often find ourselves upon the very verge of remembrance, without being able, in the end, to remember."
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"...the agony of my soul found vent in one loud, long and final scream of despair."
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"True! - nervous - very, very nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?"
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"A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on. (Montresor)"
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"Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger."
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"From childhood's hour I have not been As others were - I have not seen As others saw - I could not bring My passions from a common spring -"
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"I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him."
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"And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor, Shall be lifted -- Nevermore!"
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"That is another of your odd notions," said the Prefect, who had a fashion of calling every thing "odd" that was beyond his comprehension, and thus lived amid an absolute legion of "oddities."
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"And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door, That I scarce was sure I heard you"— here I opened wide the door; — Darkness there, and nothing more."
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"I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty."
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"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."
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"I was a child and she was a child, In this kingdom by the sea; But we loved with a love that was more than love- I and my Annabel Lee; With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven Coveted her and me."
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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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"For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And the stars never rise but i feel the bright eyes Of the beautiful Annabel Lee."
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"When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket."
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"Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day; or the agonies which are have their origins in ecstasies which might have been."
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"...that fitful strain of melancholy which will ever be found inseperable from the perfection of the beautiful."
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"When, indeed, men speak of Beauty, they mean, precisely, not a quality, as is supposed, but an effect - they refer, in short, just to that intense and pure elevation of soul - not of intellect, or of heart."
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"The idea of God, infinity, or spirit stands for the possible attempt at an impossible conception."
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"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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"The rain came down upon my head - Unshelter'd. And the wind rendered me mad and deaf and blind."
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"A man's grammar, like Caesar's wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity."
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"Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made."
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"In criticism, I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me."
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"Villains!' I shrieked. 'Dissemble no more! I admit the deed! Tear up the planks! Here, here! It is the beating of his hideous heart!"
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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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"Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant."
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