“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
― Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
― Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
― Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
“I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it.”
― Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
“Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.”
― Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
“All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.”
― Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
“The best things in life make you sweaty.”
― Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
“Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.”
― Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
“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.”
― Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
“Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.”
― Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
“I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.”
― Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
“It is a happiness to wonder; -- it is a happiness to dream.”
― Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
“Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.”
― Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
“Stupidity is a talent for misconception.”
― Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
“To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!”
― Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
“Fill with mingled cream and amber,
I will drain that glass again.
Such hilarious visions clamber
Through the chamber of my brain —
Quaintest thoughts — queerest fancies
Come to life and fade away;
What care I how time advances?
I am drinking ale today.”
― Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
“Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.”
― Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
“In criticism, I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.”
― Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
“There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm”
― Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
“By a route obscure and lonely
Haunted by ill angels only,
Where an eidolon, named NIGHT,
On a black throne reigns upright,
I have reached these lands but newly
From an ultimate dim Thule --
From a wild, weird clime that lieth, sublime,
Out of SPACE, out of TIME.”
― Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)