Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe (c. 1809-1849)

"In no affairs of mere prejudice, pro or con, do we deduce inferences with entire certainty, even from the most simple data."

• From Edgar Allan Poe's Narrative of A. Gordon Pym in Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Works (JKL Classics, 2017).

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Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe (c. 1809-1849)

"With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence; they must not--they cannot at will be excited with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind."

• From Edgar Allan Poe's preface to The Raven and Other Poems (c. 1845) in Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Works (JKL Classics, 2017).

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Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe (c. 1809-1849)

"The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?"

• From The Premature Burial in Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Works (JKL Classics, 2017).

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Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe (c. 1809-1849)

"Truth lies in the huge abysses where wisdom is sought - not in the palpable palaces where she is found."

• From Edgar Allan Poe's letter to Mr. B- (c. 1831) in Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Works (JKL Classics, 2017).

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Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe (c. 1809-1849)

"Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence--whether much that is glorious--whether all that is profound--does not spring from disease of thought--from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect."

•  From Edgar Allan Poe's Eleonora in Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Works (JKL Classics, 2017).

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Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe (c. 1809-1849)

"Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing,
Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before."

• From Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" in Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Works (JKL Classics, 2017).

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Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe (c. 1809-1849)

"A feeling, for which I have no name, has taken possession of my soul - a sensation which will admit of no analysis, to which the lessons of bygone times are inadequate, and for which I fear futurity itself will offer me no key."

• From Edgar Allan Poe's "Ms. Found in a Bottle" in Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Works (JKL Classics, 2017).

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Edgar Allan Poe

Edar Allan Poe (c. 1809-1849)

"They who dream by day are cognizant of may things which escape those who dream only by night."

• From Edgar Allan Poe's "Eleonora" in Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Works (JKL Classics, 2017).

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Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)

"When I wish to find out how wise, or how stupid, or how good, or how wicked is any one, or what are his thoughts at the moment, I fashion the expression of my face, as accurately as possible, in accordance with the expression of his, and then wait to see what thought or sentiments arise in my mind or heart, as if to match or correspond with the expression."

• From Edgar Allan Poe's The Purloined Letter in Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Works (JKL Classics, 2017).

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Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe (American writer, 1809-1849)

"Nothing is more vague than impressions of individual identity. Each man recognizes his neighbor, yet there are few instances in which any one is prepared to give a reason for his recognition."

• From Edgar Allan Poe's The Mystery of Marie Roget in Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Works (JKL Classics, 2017).

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Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)

“We should bear in mind that, in general, it is the object of our newspapers rather to create a sensation—to make a point—than to further the cause of truth.”

• From Edgar Allan Poe's The Mystery of Marie Roget in Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Works (JKL Classics, 2017).

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Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)

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

• From Edgar Allan Poe's The Mystery of Marie Roget in Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Works (JKL Classics, 2017).

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Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)

"In investigations such as we are now pursuing, it should not be so much asked 'what has occurred,' as 'what has occurred that has never occurred before.'"

• From The Murders in the Rue Morgue in Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Works (JKL Classics, 2017).

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Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849 CE)

"No man has recorded, no man has dared to record, the wonders of his inner life."

• From Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Works (JKL Classics, 2017).

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