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Quotes by Edgar Allan Poe
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Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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?
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.
I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
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.'
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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.
Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.
They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.
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.
There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.
That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.
The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
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