67 result(s) for Edgar Allen Poe Quotes.
"Quoth the Raven, Nevermore."
"The boundaries which divide Life and Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?"
"With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion."
"There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of literature is perhaps one of the few."
"The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls."
"It is a happiness to wonder; it is a happiness to dream."
"I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it."
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"There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion."
"Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so."
"In reading some books we occupy ourselves chiefly with the thoughts of the author; in perusing others, with our own."
"I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him."
"I have no faith in human perfectibility. 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."
"It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic."
"Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see."
"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."
"Stupidity is a talent for misconception."
"I remain nameless to you, about whom I wrote so much."
"I have great faith in fools - self-confidence, my friends will call it."
"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."
"Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence."
"A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it."
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"Even in the grave, all is not lost."
"I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind."
"It was many and many a year ago, in a kingdom by the sea."
"Art is to look at not to criticize."
"We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us."
"Quoth the raven 'Nevermore.'"
"The death of a beautiful woman is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world."
"Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before."
"I have great faith in fools – self-confidence, my friends will call it."
"That all we see or seem is but a dream within a dream."
"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?"
"Sometimes I'm terrified of my heart; of its constant hunger for whatever it is it wants."
"We loved with a love that was more than love."
"Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute."
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"It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt."
"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."
"To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness."
"The true genius shudders at incompleteness - imperfection - and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said."
"The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no form of thought is alien, no expression foreign."
"I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason."
"It is a happiness to wonder; -- it is a happiness to dream."
"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity."
"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream."
"Quoth the Raven, 'Nevermore.'"
"Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality."
"The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world."
"Invisible things are the only realities."
"It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial."
"I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat."
"Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence."
"I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it."
"I would define, in brief, the Poetry of words as The Rhythmical Creation of Beauty."
"There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit."
"With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion."
"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."
"I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity."
"Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear."
"The best things in life make you sweaty."
"Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words."
"The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague."
"I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence."
"All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry."
"There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm."
"The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be."
"It was the brutal rhythm of the chain that caused the change."
"I could not dream that, having done so much, I should fail in the solution of this mystery."
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