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Edgar Allan Poe Quotes


An American author, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement.
Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American author, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective-fiction genre. He is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction. He was the first well-known American writer to try to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career.

Here are some famous quotes by Edgar Allan Poe.

The glory that was Greece.

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The grandeur that was Rome.

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I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.

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We loved with a love that was more than love.

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With me poetry has not been a purpose but a passion.

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Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.

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Never to suffer would have been never to have been blessed.

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In efforts to soar above our nature we invariably fall below it.

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Of puns it has been said that those most dislike who are least able to utter them.

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Man's real life is happy chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

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Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.

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Once upon a midnight dreary while I pondered weak and weary Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore.

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On desperate seas long wont to roam Thy hyacinth hair they classic face Thy naiad airs have brought me home To the glory that was Greece And the grandeur that was Rome.

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And the Raven never flitting Still is sitting still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas Just above my chamber door; And his eyes have all the seeming Of a demon's that is dreaming And the lamplight o'er him streaming Throws his shadow on the floor And my soul from out that shadow That lies floating on the floor Shall be lifted - nevermore.