11 Edgar Allan Poe Quotes on Memory

Edgar Allan Poe quotes on memory

1. A dark unfathom'd tide Of interminable pride - A mystery, and a dream, Should my early life seem.

6. Hast thou not torn the Naiad from her flood, The Elfin from the green grass, and from me The summer dream beneath the tamarind tree?

14. And all my days are trances, And all my nightly dreams Are where thy dark eye glances, And where thy footstep gleams - In what ethereal dances, By what eternal streams.

16. But as, in ethics, evil is a consequence of good, so, in fact, out of joy is sorrow born. Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day, or the agonies which are have their origin in the ecstasies which might have been.

19. In the greenest of our valleys By good angels tenanted, Once a fair and stately palace - Radiant palace - reared its head.

63. If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.

74. Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December; And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.

75. Sorrow for the lost Lenore - For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore - Nameless here for evermore.

79. 'Doubtless,' said I, 'what it utters is its only stock and store, Caught from some unhappy master whom unmerciful Disaster Followed fast and followed faster till his songs one burden bore.

82. And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door.

87. 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.