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“Thy Naiad airs have brought me home
To the glory that was Greece
And the grandeur that was Rome.”
Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) American author, poet, editor and literary critic
"To Helen", st. 1-2 (1831).
Context: p>Helen, thy beauty is to me
Like those Nicean barks of yore,
That gently, o'er a perfumed sea,
The weary, wayworn wanderer bore
To his own native shore.On desperate seas long wont to roam,
Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face,
Thy Naiad airs have brought me home
To the glory that was Greece
And the grandeur that was Rome.</p
“By a route obscure and lonely,
Haunted by ill angels only,”
Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) American author, poet, editor and literary critic
"Dreamland", st. 1 (1845).
Context: 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 wild weird clime that lieth, sublime,
Out of SPACE — out of TIME.
“All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.”
Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) American author, poet, editor and literary critic
Source: báseň A Dream Within a Dream
Edgar Allan Poe book The Black Cat
Have we not a perpetual inclination, in the teeth of our best judgement, to violate that which is Law, merely because we understand it to be such?
The Black Cat (1843)
“Years of love have been forgot
In the hatred of a minute.”
Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) American author, poet, editor and literary critic
To M——— (1829), reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Sleep. Those little slices of death. How I loathe them.”
Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) American author, poet, editor and literary critic
Various forms of this quote are attributed to Poe, primarily by a title card in the movie A Nightmare on Elm Street 3, though there is no record of his having ever said it.
Misattributed
“If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.”
Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) American author, poet, editor and literary critic
Marginalia http://www.easylit.com/poe/comtext/prose/margin.shtml (November 1844) <br class="br">Variant: If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
“And now have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the senses?”
Edgar Allan Poe book The Tell-Tale Heart
The Tell-Tale Heart (1843)
Context: And now have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the senses? -- now, I say, there came to my ears a low, dull, quick sound, such as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton. I knew that sound too. It was the beating of the old man's heart. It increased my fury, as the beating of a drum stimulates the soldier into courage.
Stanza 1.
The Raven (1844)
Context: 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 of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
St. 1.
Annabel Lee (1849)
Context: It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden lived whom you may know
By the name of Annabel Lee; —
And this maiden she lived with no other thought
Than to love and be loved by me.
St. 2.
Annabel Lee (1849)
Context: I was a child and she was a child,
In this kingdom by the sea,
But we loved with a love that was more than love —
I and my Annabel Lee —
With a love that the wingèd seraphs of Heaven
Coveted her and me.
“You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;”
Edgar Allan Poe book A Dream Within a Dream
"A Dream Within a Dream" (1849).
Context: You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.
“Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.”
Edgar Allan Poe book The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether
"The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether" (1845)
“If a poem hasn't ripped apart your soul; you haven't experienced poetry.”
Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) American author, poet, editor and literary critic