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The reproduction of what the senses perceive in nature through the veil of the soul.

The reproduction of what the senses perceive in nature through the veil of the soul.

Edgar Allan Poe
Soul, Veils, Perceive
Edgar Allan Poe (1980). “The Unknown Poe: An Anthology of Fugitive Writings”, p.51, City Lights Books

Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded.

Edgar Allan Poe
Should Have, Mad, Fancy
Edgar Allan Poe, Stuart Levine, Susan Levine (1976). “The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe: An Annotated Edition”, p.260, University of Illinois Press

I found him well educated, with unusual powers of mind, but infected with misanthropy, and subject to perverse moods of alternate enthusiasm and melancholy.

Edgar Allan Poe
Mind, Enthusiasm, Melancholy
Edgar Allan Poe (2015). “A Classic Crime Collection”, p.104, Simon and Schuster

And have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the sense? --now, I say, there came to my ears a low, dull, quick sound, such as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton. I knew that sound well, too. It was the beating of the old man's heart. It increased my fury, as the beating of a drum stimulates the soldier into courage.

Edgar Allan Poe
Mistake, Heart, Men
Edgar Allan Poe (2006). “The Best of Poe”, p.83, Prestwick House Inc

In the Heaven's above, the angels, whispering to one another, can find, among their burning terms of love, none so devotional as that of 'Mother.

Edgar Allan Poe
Mothers Day, Angel, Heaven
Edgar Allan Poe (2016). “Edgar Allan Poe's Complete Poetical Works”, p.20, Lulu.com

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
Ninety Nine, Literature, Obscure
Edgar Allan Poe (2017). “Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Essays, Literary Studies, Criticism, Cryptography & Autography, Translations, Letters and Other Non-Fiction Works: The Philosophy of Composition, The Rationale of Verse, The Poetic Principle, Old English Poetry, Maelzel's Chess Player, Eureka, The Literati of New York, Fifty Suggestions, Exordium, Marginalia…”, p.18, e-artnow

Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries

Edgar Allan Poe
Book, Luxury, Sole
Edgar Allan Poe, Stuart Levine, Susan Levine (2000). “Thirty-two Stories”, p.134, Hackett Publishing

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

Edgar Allan Poe
Thoughtful, Taught Us, Intelligence

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 Allan Poe
Sight, Smell, Odor
Edgar Allan Poe, Rufus Wilmot Griswold, Nathaniel Parker Willis, James Russell Lowell (1858). “The literati”, p.515

It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.

Edgar Allan Poe
Thoughtful, Reality, Superficial
Edgar Allan Poe (2012). “Literary Theory and Criticism”, p.126, Courier Corporation

I seemed to be upon the verge of comprehension, without the power to comprehend as men, at time, find themselves upon the brink of rememberance, without being able, in the end, to remember.

Edgar Allan Poe
Men, Able, Remember
Edgar Allan Poe (2004). “The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe”, p.18, Wordsworth Editions

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.

Edgar Allan Poe
Memories, Long, Remembrance
Edgar Allan Poe (2014). “The Complete Tales & Poems of Edgar Allan Poe”, p.564, Race Point Pub

[E]very plot, worth the name, must be elaborated to its dénouement before anything be attempted with the pen. It is only with the dénouement constantly in view that we can plot its indispensable air of consequence, or causation, by making the incidents, and especially the tone at all points tend to the development of the intention.

Edgar Allan Poe
Air, Views, Names
Edgar Allan Poe (2016). “Edgar Allan Poe's Complete Poetical Works”, p.243, My Ebook Publishing House

For years your name never passed my lips, while my soul drank in, with a delirious thirst, all that was uttered in my presence respecting you.

Edgar Allan Poe
Years, Names, Soul
Edgar Allan Poe, Burton Ralph Pollin, Jeffrey A. Savoye (2008). “The Collected Letters of Edgar Allan Poe: 1847-1849”

Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the nightly shore - Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore! Quoth the raven, `Nevermore.

Edgar Allan Poe
Night, Names, Ravens
"The Raven" l. 46 (1845)

In death - no! even in the grave all is not lost. Else there is no immortality for man. Arousing from the most profound slumbers, we break the gossamer web of some dream. Yet in a second afterward, (so frail may that web have been) we remember not that we have dreamed.

Edgar Allan Poe
Dream, Men, Profound
Edgar Allan Poe (2006). “The Best of Poe”, p.70, Prestwick House Inc

During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country; and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher. I know not how it was - but, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit.

Edgar Allan Poe
Country, Book, Autumn
Edgar Allan Poe (1927). “Tales by Edgar Allan Poe”, p.128, Dimitrios Spyridon Chytiris

Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.

Edgar Allan Poe
Men, Thinking, Mystery
Edgar Allan Poe, Stuart Levine, Susan Levine (1976). “The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe: An Annotated Edition”, p.370, University of Illinois Press

A gentleman with a pug nose is a contradiction in terms.

Edgar Allan Poe
Gentleman, Pugs, Noses
Edgar Allan Poe, Gary Richard Thompson (1984). “Essays and Reviews”, p.1340, Library of America

This maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me.

Edgar Allan Poe
Love, Famous Love, Maidens
"Annabel Lee" l. 5 (1849)

Hear the sledges with the bells, Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night, While the stars that oversprinkle All the Heavens seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight: Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells From the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells-- From the jingling and the tingling of the bells.

Edgar Allan Poe
Stars, Night, Air
"The Bells" l. 6 (1849)

I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him.

Edgar Allan Poe
Men, Week, Old Man
Edgar Allan Poe (2014). “Complete Collection of Edgar Allan Poe - 170+ eBooks (Complete Tales, Poems, Novels, Essays, Miscellaneous, Play)”, p.409, Ageless Reads

The greater amount of truth is impulsively uttered; thus the greater amount is spoken, not written.

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

The analytical power should not be confounded with simple ingenuity; for while the analyst is necessarily ingenious, the ingenious man is often remarkably incapable of analysis.

Edgar Allan Poe
Power, Simple, Men
Edgar Allan Poe (2006). “The Best of Poe”, p.29, Prestwick House Inc

The depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found.

Edgar Allan Poe
Lying, Mountain, Depth
Edgar Allan Poe (2015). “A Classic Crime Collection”, p.76, Simon and Schuster

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