Edgar Allan Poe Quotes

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Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “And all I loved, I loved alone.”

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “There is no beauty without some strangeness.”

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “I am a writer. Therefore. I am not sane.”

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.”

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “We loved with a love that was more than love.”

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.”

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “Leave my loneliness unbroken.”

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.”

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.”

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.”

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.”

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.”

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.”

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.”

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.”

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.”

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “I do not suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it.”

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.”

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.”

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “Stupidity is a talent for misconception.”

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.”

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “A wise man hears one word and understands two.”

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.”

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.”

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.”

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?”

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “Deep in earth my love is lying And I must weep alone.”

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.”

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow.”

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.”

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.”

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “Lord help my poor soul.”

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.”

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “The best things in life make you sweaty.”

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “Those who gossip with you will gossip about you.”

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.”

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.”

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “The goodness of the true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability.”

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “It is a happiness to wonder; – it is a happiness to dream.”

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active – not more happy – nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.”

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “False hope is nicer than no hope at all.”

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.”

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “To observe attentively is to remember distinctly.”

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.”

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “I was a child and she was a child, In this kingdom by the sea; But we loved with a love that was more than love- I and my Annabel Lee; With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven Coveted her and me.”

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “Sometimes I’m terrified of my heart; of its constant hunger for whatever it is it wants. The way it stops and starts.”

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.”

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “How many good books suffer neglect through the inefficiency of their beginnings!”

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.”

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.”

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.”

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.”

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “You call it hope-that fire of fire! It is but agony of desire.”

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.”

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor, Shall be lifted – Nevermore!”

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “Men of genius are far more abundant than is supposed. In fact, to appreciate thoroughly the work of what we call genius, is to possess all the genius by which the work was produced.”

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “Sleep, those little slices of death – how I loathe them.”

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it ‘the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.’ The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of ‘Artist.’”

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “If you run out of ideas follow the road; you’ll get there.”

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.”

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “But our love was stronger by far than the love Of those who were older than we Of many far wiser than we And neither the angels in heaven above, Nor the demons down under the sea, Can ever dissever my soul from the soul Of the beautiful Annabel Lee.”

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “A man’s grammar, like Caesar’s wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.”

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “From childhood’s hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone.”

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “The past is a pebble in my shoe.”

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.”

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “You are not wrong who deem That my days have been a dream; Yet if hope has flown away In a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less gone? All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream.”

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “It was night, and the rain fell; and falling, it was rain, but, having fallen, it was blood.”

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.”

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “The idea of God, infinity, or spirit stands for the possible attempt at an impossible conception.”

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.”

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “Indeed, there is an eloquence in true enthusiasm that is not to be doubted.”

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is glorious– whether all that is profound– does not spring from disease of thought– from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect.”

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “Beauty is the sole legitimate province of the poem.”

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!”

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “In reading some books we occupy ourselves chiefly with the thoughts of the author; in perusing others, exclusively with our own.”

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “The plots of God are perfect. The Universe is a plot of God.”

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “Even in the grave, all is not lost.”

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.”

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “The rain came down upon my head – Unshelter’d. And the wind rendered me mad and deaf and blind.”

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “Art is to look at not to criticize.”

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “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!”

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.”

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting...”

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells, From the bells, bells, bells.”

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.”

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “Perversity is the human thirst for self-torture.”

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “I heed not that my earthly lot Hath – little of Earth in it – That years of love have been forgot In the hatred of a minute: – I mourn not that the desolate Are happier, sweet, than I, But that you sorrow for my fate Who am a passer by.”

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “I have made no money. I am as poor now as ever I was in my life – except in hope, which is by no means bankable.”

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “The fever called “living” Is conquer’d at last.”

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.”

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “I found him well educated, with unusual powers of mind, but infected with misanthropy, and subject to perverse moods of alternate enthusiasm and melancholy.”

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.”

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “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 Quote: “Sensations are the great things, after all. Should you ever be drowned or hung, be sure and make a note of your sensations; they will be worth to you ten guineas a sheet.”

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness.”

Edgar Allan Poe Quote: “True, nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am, but why will say that I am mad?! The disease had haunted my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them. Of all the sense of hearing acute.”

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