List of Edgar Allan Poe Quotes

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Edgar Allan Poe
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Let us dismiss, as irrelevant to the poem per se, the circumstance ... which, in the first place, gave rise to the intention of composing a poem that should suit at once the popular and the critical taste.
Rose Taste Firsts
The mental features discoursed of as the analytical, are, in themselves, but little susceptible of analysis. we appreciate them only in their effects. we know of them, among other things, that they are always to their possessor, when inordinately possessed, a source of the liveliest enjoyment.
Book Appreciate Analysis
The object, truth, or the satisfaction of the intellect, and the object, passion, or the excitement of the heart, are, although attainable, to a certain extent, in poetry, far more readily attainable in prose.
Passion Heart Satisfaction
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.
Taste Creation Sole
My next thought concerned the choice of an impression, or effect, to be conveyed: and here i may as well observe that, throughout the construction, i kept steadily in view the design.
Views Choices Design
No murmur arose from its bed, and so gently it wandered along, that the pearly pebbles upon which we loved to gaze, far down within its bosom, stirred not at all, but lay in a motionless content, each in its own old station, shining on gloriously forever.
Shining Forever Bed
If the propositions of this discourse are tenable, the "state of progressive collapse" is precisely that state in which alone we are warranted in considering all things.
Progressive States Discourse
In the marginalia ... we talk only to ourselves; we therefore talk freshly - boldly - originally - with abandonment - without conceit.
Writing Abandonment Conceit
The merchant, to secure his treasure the merchant, to secure his treasure, conveys it in a borrowed name: euphelia serves to grace my measure, but cloe is my real flame. my softest verse, my darling lyre upon euphelia's toilet lay - when cloe noted her desire that i should sing, that i should play. my lyre i tune, my voice i raise, but with my numbers mix my sighs; and whilst i sing euphelia's praise, i fix my soul on cloe's eyes. fair cloe blushed; euphelia frowned: i sung, and gazed; i played, and trembled: and venus to the loves around remarked how ill we all dissembled.
Love Real Eye
Over the mountains of the moon, down the valley of the shadow, ride, boldly ride," the shade replied,- "if you seek for eldorado.
Moon Shadow Mountain
To helen helen, thy beauty is to me like those nicean barks of yore that gently, o'er a perfumed sea, the weary, way-worn wanderer bore to his own native shore. on desperate seas long wont to roam, thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face, thy naiad airs have brought me home to the glory that was greece, and the grandeur that was rome. lo, in yon brilliant window-niche how statue-like i see thee stand, the agate lamp within thy hand, ah! psyche, from the regions which are holy land!
Beauty Home Hair
Most writers - poets in especial - prefer having it understood that they compose by a species of fine frenzy - an ecstatic intuition - and would positively shudder at letting the public take a peep behind the scenes.
Writing Creative Intuition
  • Born: January 19, 1809
  • Died: October 7, 1849
  • Occupation: Author
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