4 Quotes by Edgar Allan Poe about names

  • Author Edgar Allan Poe
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    Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the nightly shore - Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore! Quoth the raven, `Nevermore.

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  • Author Edgar Allan Poe
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    The usual derivation of the word Metaphysics is not to be sustainedthe science is supposed to take its name from its superiority to physics. The truth is, that Aristotle's treatise on Morals is next in succession to his Book of Physics.

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  • Author Edgar Allan Poe
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    For years your name never passed my lips, while my soul drank in, with a delirious thirst, all that was uttered in my presence respecting you....

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  • Author Edgar Allan Poe
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    Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December; And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. Eagerly, I wished the morrow; - vainly I had sought to borrow From my books surcease of sorrow - sorrow for the lost Leonore - For the rare and radiant maiden who the angels name Lenore - Nameless here for evermore.

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