Edgar Allan Poe
insane perion horrible sanity
“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
― Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
see seem dream
“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
― Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
dream day night cognizant
“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
― Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
faith fool self-confidence friend
“I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it.”
― Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
believe nothing hear half see
“Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.”
― Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
religion evolve fraud fear greed imagination poetry
“All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.”
― Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
life best sweaty
“The best things in life make you sweaty.”
― Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
beauty supreme excite sensitive soul tears
“Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.”
― Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
faith human perfectibility humanity active happy wise 6000 year
“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 madness sublimity intelligence
“Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.”
― Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
dread event future results
“I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.”
― Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
happiness wonder dream
“It is a happiness to wonder; -- it is a happiness to dream.”
― Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
mad madness loftiest intelligence
“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 talent misconception
“Stupidity is a talent for misconception.”
― Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
die laughing glorious death
“To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!”
― Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
cream amber glass beer drink ale
“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 philosophy truth irrelevant
“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)
criticism bold sternly just friend foe purpose
“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)
eloquence enthusiasm
“There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm”
― Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
route obscure lonely thule space time
“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)