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“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)

“Sleep. Those little slices of death. How I loathe them.”

Edgar Allan Poe

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

“The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all these more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind.”

Edgar Allan Poe book The Murders in the Rue Morgue

"The Murders in the Rue Morgue" (1841).

“Sound loves to revel in a summer night.”

Edgar Allan Poe Al Aaraaf

Al Aaraaf (1829).

“We loved with a love that was more than love.”

Edgar Allan Poe Annabel Lee

Source: Annabel Lee

“Thou wouldst be loved?”

Edgar Allan Poe

then let thy heart<br>From its present pathway part not!<br>Being everything which now thou art,<br>Be nothing which thou art not.<br>So with the world thy gentle ways,<br>Thy grace, thy more than beauty,<br>Shall be an endless theme of praise,<br>And love — a simple duty. <br class="br">&quot; To Frances S. Osgood http://www.readbookonline.net/readOnLine/595/&quot; (1845).

“There is no oath which seems to me so sacred as that sworn by the all-divine love I bear you.”

Edgar Allan Poe

By this love, then, and by the God who reigns in Heaven, I swear to you that my soul is incapable of dishonor — that, with the exception of occasional follies and excesses which I bitterly lament, but to which I have been driven by intolerable sorrow, and which are hourly committed by others without attracting any notice whatever — I can call to mind no act of my life which would bring a blush to my cheek — or to yours. If I have erred at all, in this regard, it has been on the side of what the world would call a Quixotic sense of the honorable — of the chivalrous. <br class="br">&quot; Letter to Mrs. Whitman http://www.lfchosting.com/eapoe/WORKS/letters/p4810181.htm&quot; (1848-10-18).

“Get thee back into the tempest and the Night's Plutonian shore!
Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken!
Leave my loneliness unbroken!”

Edgar Allan Poe The Raven

quit the bust above my door!
Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!"
Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore."
Stanza 17.
The Raven (1844)

“For the love of God Montresor!”

Edgar Allan Poe book The Cask of Amontillado

"The Cask of Amontillado" (1846).

“Come! let the burial rite be read — the funeral song be sung!”

Edgar Allan Poe Lenore

An anthem for the queenliest dead that ever died so young —
A dirge for her the doubly dead in that she died so young.
"Lenore", st. 1 (1831).

“A large mirror,—so at first it seemed to me in my confusion—now stood where none had been perceptible before; and, as I stepped up to it in extremity of terror, mine own image, but with features all pale and dabbled in blood, advanced to meet me with a feeble and tottering gait.”

Edgar Allan Poe book William Wilson

William Wilson (1839)

“You have conquered, and I yield. Yet, henceforward art thou also dead—dead to the World, to Heaven and to Hope! In me didst thou exist—and, in my death, see by this image, which is thine own, how utterly thou hast murdered thyself.”

Edgar Allan Poe book William Wilson

William Wilson (1839)

“Thus it appeared, I say, but was not. It was my antagonist—it was Wilson, who then stood before me in the agonies of his dissolution. His mask and cloak lay, where he had thrown them, upon the floor. Not a thread in all his raiment—not a line in all the marked and singular lineaments of his face which was not, even in the most absolute identity, mine own!”

Edgar Allan Poe book William Wilson

William Wilson (1839)

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

Edgar Allan Poe

The Poetic Principle (1850)

“And all I loved, I loved alone. ”

Edgar Allan Poe

“The object, Truth, or the satisfaction of the intellect, and the object, Passion, or the excitement of the heart, are, although attainable, to a certain extent, in poetry, far more readily attainable in prose.”

Edgar Allan Poe book The Philosophy of Composition

The Philosophy of Composition (published 1846).