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And all I loved, I loved alone...

And all I loved, I loved alone.

Edgar Poe 448 quotes

...the sole purpose is to prov...

...the sole purpose is to provide infinite springs, at which the soul may allay the eternal thirst TO KNOW which is forever unquenchable within it, since to quench it, would be to extinguish the soul's self...

Edgar Poe 448 quotes

I hold that a long poem does n...

I hold that a long poem does not exist. I maintain that the phrase, 'a long poem,' is simply a flat contradiction in terms.

Edgar Poe 448 quotes

I need scarcely observe that a...

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.

Edgar Poe 448 quotes

I would define, in brief, the ...

I would define, in brief, the Poetry of words as the Rhythmical Creation of Beauty. Its sole arbiter is taste. With the intellect or with the conscience, it has only collateral relations. Unless incidentally, it has no concern whatever either with duty or with truth.

Edgar Poe 448 quotes

Life is for the strong, to be ...

Life is for the strong, to be lived by the strong and if need be, taken by the strong. The weak were put on earth to give the strong pleasure.

Edgar Poe 448 quotes

...for the question is of will...

...for the question is of will, and not, as the insanity of logic has assumed of power. It is not that the Deity cannot modify his laws, but that we insult him in imagining a possible necessity for modification. In their origin these laws were fashioned to embrace all contingencies which could lie in the future. With God all is Now.

Edgar Poe 448 quotes

There was much of the beautifu...

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.

Edgar Poe 448 quotes

Sensations are the great thing...

Sensations are the great things, after all. Should you ever be drowned or hung, be sure and make a note of your sensations; they will be worth to you ten guineas a sheet.

Edgar Poe 448 quotes

Odors have an altogether pecul...

Odors have an altogether peculiar force, in affecting us through association; a force differing essentially from that of objects addressing the touch, the taste, the sight or the hearing.

Edgar Poe 448 quotes

Music, when combined with a pl...

Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness.

Edgar Poe 448 quotes

I am walking like a bewitched ...

I am walking like a bewitched corpse, with the certainty of being eaten by the infinite, of being annulled by the only existing Absurd.

Edgar Poe 448 quotes

If I could dwell where Israfel...

If I could dwell where Israfel hath dwelt and he where I he might not sing so wildly well a mortal melody while a bolder note then this might swell from my lyre in the sky.

Edgar Poe 448 quotes

And because our reason violent...

And because our reason violently deters us from the brink, therefore, do we the more impetuously approach it. There is no passion in nature so demoniacally impatient, as that of him, who shuddering upon the edge of a precipice, thus meditates a plunge. To indulge for a moment, in any attempt at thought, is to be inevitably lost; for reflection but urges us to forbear, and therefore it is, I say, that we cannot. If there be no friendly arm to check us, or if we fail in a sudden effort to prostrate ourselves backward fro

Edgar Poe 448 quotes

[The daguerreotype] itself mus...

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

Edgar Poe 448 quotes

Take thy beak from out my hear...

Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!Ђќ Quoth the raven, 'Nevermore.

Edgar Poe 448 quotes

And so being young and dipped ...

And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.

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Ah, broken is the golden bowl!...

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!

Edgar Poe 448 quotes

From a proud tower in the town...

From a proud tower in the town, Death looks gigantically down.

Edgar Poe 448 quotes

And each separate dying ember ...

And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.

Edgar Poe 448 quotes

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