787 Quotes by Edgar Allan Poe

Ask not for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for the raven nevermore

A feeling, for which I have no name, has taken possession of my soul.

La vida orgánica y la materia (complejas, sustanciales y sometidas a leyes) fueron creadas con el propósito de producir un impedimento.

Ah! what is not a dream by day To him whose eyes are cast On things around him with a ray Turned back upon the past?

No more than any other talent, is that for music susceptible of complete enjoyment where there is no second party to appreciate its exercise; and it is only in common with other talents that it produces effects which may be fully enjoyed in solitude... the higher order of music is the most thoroughly estimated when we are exclusively alone.

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

I dare say you have often observed this disposition to temporize, or to procrastinate, in people who are labouring under any very poignant sorrow. Their powers of mind seem to be rendered torpid, so that they have a horror of any thing like action, and like nothing in the world so well as to liequietly in bed and “nurse their grief,” as the old ladies express it- that is to say, ruminate over the trouble.

In criticism, I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.

He who has never swooned, is not he who finds strange palaces and wildly familiar faces in coals that glow; is not he who beholds floating in mid-air the sad visions that the many may not view; is not he who ponders over the perfume of some novel flower -- is not he whose brain grows bewildered with the meaning of some musical cadence which has never before arrested his attention.