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Best Quotes by Edgar Allan Poe (119)

Discover the most loved quotes from Edgar Allan Poe's poetry.

"Never its mysteries are exposed To the weak human eye unclosed" from Dream-Land · 12 ♥

"By a route obscure and lonely, Haunted by ill angels only, Where an Eidolon, named Night, On a black throne reigns upright, I have reached these lands but newly From an ultimate dim Thule— From a wil…" from Dream-Land · 9 ♥

"Thy soul shall find itself alone 'Mid dark thoughts of the grey tomb-stone — Not one, of all the crowd, to pry Into thine hour of secrecy: Be silent in that solitude Which is not loneliness—for then…" from Spirits of the Dead · 9 ♥

"I stand amid the roar Of a surf-tormented shore, And I hold within my hand Grains of the golden sand— How few! yet how they creep Through my fingers to the deep, While I weep—while I weep!" from A Dream within a Dream · 8 ♥

"And travellers, now, within that valley, Through the red-litten windows see Vast forms, that move fantastically To a discordant melody, While, like a ghastly rapid river, Through the pale door A hide…" from The Haunted Palace · 7 ♥

"In visions of the dark night I have dreamed of joy departed— But a waking dream of life and light Hath left me broken-hearted." from A Dream · 7 ♥

"Over the Mountains Of the Moon, Down the Valley of the Shadow, Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied,— "If you seek for Eldorado!" from Eldorado · 7 ♥

"Gaily bedight, A gallant knight, In sunshine and in shadow, Had journeyed long, Singing a song, In search of Eldorado." from Eldorado · 7 ♥

"The viol, the violet, and the vine. Resignedly beneath the sky" from The City in the Sea · 6 ♥

"Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best Have gone to their eternal rest." from The City in the Sea · 6 ♥

"So blend the turrets and shadows there That all seem pendulous in air, While from a proud tower in the town Death looks gigantically down." from The City in the Sea · 6 ♥

"But evil things, in robes of sorrow, Assailed the monarch's high estate. (Ah, let us mourn!—for never morrow Shall dawn upon him desolate!) And round about his home the glory That blushed and bloomed…" from The Haunted Palace · 5 ♥

"Be silent in that solitude Which is not loneliness—for then The spirits of the dead who stood In life before thee are again In death around thee—and their will Shall then overshadow thee: be still." from Spirits of the Dead · 5 ♥

"Over the Mountains Of the Moon, Down the Valley of the Shadow, Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied,— "If you seek for Eldorado" from Eldorado · 5 ♥

"Deep in earth my love is lying And I must weep alone." from Deep in Earth · 5 ♥

"In the greenest of our valleys By good angels tenanted, Once a fair and stately palace— Radiant palace—reared its head." from The Haunted Palace · 5 ♥

"How often we forget all time, when lone Admiring Nature's universal throne; Her woods—her wilds—her mountains—the intense Reply of hers to our intelligence!" from Communion with Nature · 4 ♥

"That holy dream—that holy dream, While all the world were chiding, Hath cheered me as a lovely beam A lonely spirit guiding." from A Dream · 4 ♥

"O God! can I not save One from the pitiless wave?" from A Dream within a Dream · 4 ♥

"On this home by Horror haunted—tell me truly, I implore— Is there—is there balm in Gilead" from The Raven · 3 ♥

"No magic shall sever Thy music from thee." from Al Aaraaf · 3 ♥

"To the terror of the lone lake. Yet that terror was not fright, But a tremulous delight — A feeling not the jewelled mine Could teach or bribe me to define — Nor Love — although the Love were thine." from The Lake — To —— · 3 ♥

"Some human memories and tearful lore, Render him terrorless: his name's "No More." from Silence · 3 ♥

"For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore— Nameless here for evermore." from The Raven · 3 ♥

"But when within thy wave she looks— Which glistens then, and trembles— Why, then, the prettiest of brooks Her worshipper resembles; For in his heart, as in thy stream, Her image deeply lies— His hear…" from To the River —— · 3 ♥

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