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Edgar Allan Poe Quotes



Quotes by Edgar Allan Poe - (9 quotes)

Edgar Allan Poe - From the Beginning category:

All works of art should begin... at the end. (Edgar Allan Poe)

Edgar Allan Poe - From the Dreams category:

All that we see or seem / Is but a dream / within a dream. (Edgar Allan Poe)

Edgar Allan Poe - From the Eccentricity category:

Men have called me mad, but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence – whether much that is glorious – whether all that is profound – does not spring from disease of thought – from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect. (Edgar Allan Poe)

Edgar Allan Poe - From the Exhaustion category:

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

Edgar Allan Poe - From the Fire category:

The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, / And taught the world with reason to admire. (Edgar Allan Poe)

Edgar Allan Poe - From the Imagination category:

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

Edgar Allan Poe - From the Perfection category:

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)

Edgar Allan Poe - From the Poetry category:

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

Edgar Allan Poe - From the Wonder category:

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