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Edgar Allan Poe Quotes - Page 3

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

Edgar Allan Poe (2012). “Edgar Allan Poe: Selected Poetry and Tales”, p.506, Broadview Press

Leave my loneliness unbroken

Edgar Allan Poe, Brod Bagert (1995). “Edgar Allan Poe”, p.18, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.

Edgar Allan Poe (2014). “Complete Collection of Edgar Allan Poe - 170+ eBooks (Complete Tales, Poems, Novels, Essays, Miscellaneous, Play)”, p.1201, Ageless Reads

Democracy is a very admirable form of government - for dogs

Edgar Allan Poe (2012). “Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allen Poe”, p.379, Doubleday

The plots of God are perfect. The Universe is a plot of God.

Edgar Allan Poe (2016). “Complete Works Of Edgar Allan Poe: The New Raven Edition”, p.3066, ShandonPress

In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.

Edgar Allan Poe, Rufus Wilmot Griswold, Nathaniel Parker Willis, James Russell Lowell (1858). “The literati”, p.525

It is a happiness to wonder; -- it is a happiness to dream.

Edgar Allan Poe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)”, p.3755, Delphi Classics

A fool, for example, thinks Shakespeare a great poet . . . yet the fool has never read Shakespeare.

Edgar Allan Poe (2016). “Complete Works Of Edgar Allan Poe: The New Raven Edition”, p.758, ShandonPress

How many good books suffer neglect through the inefficiency of their beginnings!

Edgar Allan Poe, Gary Richard Thompson (1984). “Essays and Reviews”, p.1322, Library of America

There are moments when, even to the sober eye of Reason, the world of our sad humanity must assume the aspect of Hell.

Edgar Allan Poe (1980). “The Unknown Poe: An Anthology of Fugitive Writings”, p.52, City Lights Books

Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.

"The Poetic Principle". Essay by Edgar Allan Poe, 1850.

I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.

Edgar Allan Poe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)”, p.2806, Delphi Classics

Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man.

Edgar Allan Poe (2006). “The Portable Edgar Allan Poe”, p.516, Penguin

Once upon a midnight dreary

"The Raven" l. 1 (1845)

All works of art should begin... at the end.

Edgar Allan Poe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)”, p.3541, Delphi Classics