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Every moment of the night Forever changing places And they put out the star-light With the breath from their pale faces

Every moment of the night Forever changing places And they put out the star-light With the breath from their pale faces

Edgar Allan Poe
Stars, Night, Light
Edgar Allan Poe (2008). “Edgar Allan Poe Annotated and Illustrated Entire Stories and Poems”, p.817, Bottletree Books LLC

It is more than probable that I am not understood; but I fear, indeed, that it is in no manner possible to convey to the mind of the merely general reader, an adequate idea of that nervous intensity of interest with which, in my case, the powers of meditation (not to speak technically) busied and buried themselves, in the contemplation of even the most ordinary objects of the universe.

Edgar Allan Poe
Ideas, Meditation, Mind
Edgar Allan Poe (1927). “Tales by Edgar Allan Poe”, p.29, Dimitrios Spyridon Chytiris

Read this and thought of you: Through joy and through sorrow, I wrote. Through hunger and through thirst, I wrote. Through good report and through ill report, I wrote. Through sunshine and through moonshine, I wrote. What I wrote it is unnecessary to say. ~ Edgar Allen Poe

Edgar Allan Poe
Sunshine, Joy, Sorrow

In reading some books we occupy ourselves chiefly with the thoughts of the author; in perusing others, exclusively with our own.

Edgar Allan Poe
Book, Reading
Edgar Allan Poe, Rufus Wilmot Griswold (1850). “The Literati: Some Honest Opinions about Autorial Merits and Demerits, with Occasional Works of Personality. Together with Marginalia, Suggestions, and Essays”, p.540

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

Edgar Allan Poe
Truth, Philosophy, Irrelevance
Edgar Allan Poe, Stuart Levine, Susan Levine (1976). “The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe: An Annotated Edition”, p.213, University of Illinois Press

The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all those more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind.

Edgar Allan Poe
Struggle, Player, Mind
Edgar Allan Poe (2008). “Edgar Allan Poe's Annotated Short Stories”, p.352, Bottletree Books LLC

Lord help my poor soul.

Edgar Allan Poe
Soul, Helping, Lord
Edgar Allan Poe, Brod Bagert (1995). “Edgar Allan Poe”, p.7, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

But Psyche uplifting her finger said: Sadly this star I mistrust

Edgar Allan Poe
Uplifting, Stars, Said
Edgar Allan Poe (2008). “Edgar Allan Poe's Annotated Poems”, p.124, Bottletree Books LLC

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore--While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As if some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. "'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door--Only this and nothing more.

Edgar Allan Poe
Sad, Rap, Doors
"The Raven" l. 1 (1845)

I am excessively slothful, and wonderfully industrious-by fits. There are epochs when any kind of mental exercise is torture, and when nothing yields me pleasure but the solitary communion with the 'mountains & the woods'-the 'altars' of Byron. I have thus rambled and dreamed away whole months, and awake, at last, to a sort of mania for composition. Then I scribble all day, and read all night, so long as the disease endures.

Edgar Allan Poe
Depression, Exercise, Night
Edgar Allan Poe (2006). “The Portable Edgar Allan Poe”, p.488, Penguin

There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.

Edgar Allan Poe
Love, Heart, Sacrifice
1843 'The Black Cat', in the United States Saturday Post,19 Aug.

By the grey woods, by the swamp, where the toad and newt encamp, by the dismal tarns and pools, where dwell the Gouls. By each spot the most unholy, by each nook most melancholy, there the traveller meets, aghast, sheeted memories of the Past. Shrouded forms that start and sigh, as they pass the wanderer by. White-robed forms of friends long given; In agony, to the Earth - and Heaven.

Edgar Allan Poe
Memories, Past, Agony
Edgar Allan Poe (1927). “The best known works of Edgar Allan Poe: poems, tales, essays, criticisms”

Ceux qui revent eveilles ont conscience de 1000 choses qui echapent a ceux qui ne revent qu'endormis. The one who has day dream are aware of 1000 things that the one who dreams only when he sleeps will never understand. (it sounds better in french, I do what I can with my translation...)

Edgar Allan Poe
Dream, Sleep, Sound

A dirge for her the doubly dead in that she died so young.

Edgar Allan Poe
Young, Died
Edgar Allan Poe (2012). “The Raven and Other Favorite Poems”, p.17, Courier Corporation

The death then of a beautiful woman is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world, and equally is it beyond doubt that the lips best suited for such topic are those of a bereaved lover.

Edgar Allan Poe
Love, Life, Beautiful
Edgar Allan Poe (2016). “Edgar Allan Poe's Complete Poetical Works”, p.149, Lulu.com

I was cautious in what I said before the young lady; for I could not be sure that she was sane; and, in fact, there was a certain restless brilliancy about her eyes that half led me to imagine she was not.

Edgar Allan Poe
Eye, Half, Facts
Edgar Allan Poe, Stuart Levine, Susan Levine (1976). “The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe: An Annotated Edition”, p.597, University of Illinois Press

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.

Edgar Allan Poe
Passion, Impatient, Plunge
Edgar Allan Poe (2012). “Edgar Allan Poe: Selected Poetry and Tales”, p.398, Broadview Press

For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams of the beautiful Annabel Lee

Edgar Allan Poe
Beautiful, Dream, Moon
Edgar Allan Poe (2014). “Classics Reimagined, Edgar Allan Poe”, p.196, Race Point Publishing

No pictorial or sculptural combinations of points of human loveliness, do more than approach the living and breathing human beauty as it gladdens our daily path.

Edgar Allan Poe
Breathing, Path, Combination
Edgar Allan Poe (2013). “The Works of Edgar Allan Poe”, p.142, Simon and Schuster

Gaily bedight, A gallant knight, In sunshine and in shadow, Had journeyed long, Singing a song, In search of Eldorado. But he grew old— This knight so bold— And o’er his heart a shadow— Fell as he found No spot of ground That looked like Eldorado. And, as his strength Failed him at length, He met a pilgrim shadow— ‘Shadow,’ said he, ‘Where can it be— This land of Eldorado?’ ‘Over the Mountains Of the Moon, Down the Valley of the Shadow, Ride, boldly ride,’ The shade replied,— ‘If you seek for Eldorado!

Edgar Allan Poe
Strength, Song, Failure
Edgar Allan Poe (2004). “The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe”, p.748, Wordsworth Editions

A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on. (Montresor)

Edgar Allan Poe
Burned, Stills, Candle

But in the expression of the countenance, which was beaming all over with smiles, there still lurked (incomprehensible anomalyl) that fitful strain of melancholy which will ever be found inseparable from the perfection of the beautiful.

Edgar Allan Poe
Beautiful, Perfection, Melancholy
"The Works of Edgar Allan Poe".

I have no words alas! to tell the loveliness of loving well

Edgar Allan Poe
Wells, Alas, Loveliness
Edgar Allan Poe (2014). “Classics Reimagined, Edgar Allan Poe”, p.185, Race Point Publishing

I call to mind flatness and dampness; and then all is madness - the madness of a memory which busies itself among forbidden things.

Edgar Allan Poe
Memories, Mind, Madness
Edgar Allan Poe (1927). “Tales by Edgar Allan Poe”, p.383, Dimitrios Spyridon Chytiris

the truth is, I am heartily sick of this life & of the nineteenth century in general. (I am convinced that every thing is going wrong.)

Edgar Allan Poe
Sick, Truth Is, Century
Edgar Allan Poe (2004). “The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe”, p.445, Wordsworth Editions

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