Edgar Allan Poe Quotes

To muse for long unwearied hours with my attention riveted to some frivolous device upon the margin, or in the typography of a book — to become absorbed for the better part of a summer's day in a quaint shadow falling aslant upon the tapestry, or upon the floor — to lose myself for an entire night in watching the steady flame of a lamp, or the embers of a fire — to dream away whole days over the perfume of a flower — to repeat monotonously some common word, until the sound, by dint of frequent repetition, ceased to convey any idea whatever to the mind — to lose all sense of motion or physical existence in a state of absolute bodily quiescence long and obstinately persevered in — Such were a few of the most common and least pernicious vagaries induced by a condition of the mental faculties, not, indeed, altogether unparalleled, but certainly bidding defiance to any thing like analysis or explanation.

The grandeur that was Rome.

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

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

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

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

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.

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