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The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.

The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.

Edgar Allan Poe
Soul, Monsters

If a poem hasn't ripped apart your soul; you haven't experienced poetry.

Edgar Allan Poe
Soul, Torn Apart, Havens

To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.

Edgar Allan Poe
Soul, Poetry Is

The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body; and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrilled every fibre of my frame.

Edgar Allan Poe
Soul, Body, Flight
Edgar Allan Poe (1927). “Tales by Edgar Allan Poe”, p.35, Dimitrios Spyridon Chytiris

And much of Madness, and more of Sin, And Horror the soul of the plot.

Edgar Allan Poe
Soul, Plot, Madness
Edgar Allan Poe (2001). “Great Horror Stories”, p.11, Courier Corporation

...the agony of my soul found vent in one loud, long and final scream of despair.

Edgar Allan Poe
Agony, Long, Soul
Edgar Allan Poe (2015). “The Complete Tales of Edgar Allan Poe”, p.408, Lulu.com

A poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul.

Edgar Allan Poe
Thoughtful, Soul, Titles
Edgar Allan Poe, Gary Richard Thompson (1984). “Essays and Reviews”, p.71, Library of America

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

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”

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.

In beauty of face no maiden ever equaled her. It was the radiance of an opium-dream - an airy and spirit-lifting vision more wildly divine than the fantasies which hovered about the slumbering souls of the daughters of Delos.

Edgar Allan Poe
Daughter, Dream, Soul
Edgar Allan Poe (2008). “Tales of Mystery and Imagination”

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 Allan Poe
Soul, Titles, Needs
Edgar Allan Poe, Gary Richard Thompson (1984). “Essays and Reviews”, p.71, Library of America

I must perish in this deplorable folly. Thus, thus, and not otherwise, shall I be lost. I dread the events of the future, not in themselves, but in their results. I shudder at the thought of any, even the most trivial, incident, which may operate upon this intolerable agitation of soul. I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect-in terror. In this unnerved-in this pitiable condition-I feel that the period will sooner or later arrive when I must abandon life and reason together, in some struggle with the grim phantasm, FEAR.

Edgar Allan Poe
Struggle, Soul, Together
Edgar Allan Poe (2012). “18 Best Stories by Edgar Allan Poe”, p.27, Dell

THE thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge. You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that gave utterance to a threat. At length I would be avenged; this was a point definitely, settled --but the very definitiveness with which it was resolved precluded the idea of risk. I must not only punish but punish with impunity. A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong.

Edgar Allan Poe
Revenge, Ideas, Soul
Edgar Allan Poe (1984). “Poetry and Tales”, p.848, Library of America

If in many of my productions terror has been the thesis, I maintain that terror is not of Germany, but of the soul.

Edgar Allan Poe
Soul, Germany, Originality
Edgar Allan Poe (1984). “Poetry and Tales”, p.129, Library of America

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