Edgar Allan Poe Quotes

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

Dreams, Long, Deep

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
Edgar Allan Poe

Long, Insane, Sanity

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.
Edgar Allan Poe

Imagination, Night, Dream

We loved with a love that was more than love.
Edgar Allan Poe

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

Religion, Fear, 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.
Edgar Allan Poe

Faith, Happy, Wise

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
Edgar Allan Poe

Dream, Within, Seem

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

Power, Mind, Reality

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

Beauty, Soul, Whatever

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

Forget, Wish, Remembered

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

Life, Best, Death

I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
Edgar Allan Poe

Pet, Wish, Write

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

Faith, Great, Friends

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

Science, Madness, Taught

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

True, Saying, Everything

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Edgar Allan Poe

Night, Dream, Escape

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.
Edgar Allan Poe

Beautiful, Once, Pleasure

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

Nature, Art, Through

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.
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Truth, Experience, True

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

Dreams, Hope, True

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.
Edgar Allan Poe

Once, While, Weak

I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.
Edgar Allan Poe

Between, Cause, Weakness

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

Death, Beautiful, Woman

Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
Edgar Allan Poe

Poetry, Beauty, Words

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

Life, Happy, Real

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: January 19, 1809

Died: October 7, 1849

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