Edgar Allan Poe Quotes

Biography: Edgar Allan Poe is known for his macabre and gothic tales, notably "Th... more Biography: Edgar Allan Poe is known for his macabre and gothic tales, notably "The Raven" and "The Tell-Tale Heart." Born in 1809, Poe's hauntingly poetic works explore themes of death, madness, and the supernatural. His tumultuous life, marked by tragedy and substance abuse, heavily influenced his dark literary style. less

"There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion""The best things in life make you sweaty""Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence""With me, poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion""Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night""I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty""There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told""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""The death of a beautiful woman is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world""I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat""And so being young and dipt in folly I fell in love with melancholy""I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends will call it""All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry""The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be""Believe nothing you hear and only one half that you see""Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality""There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion""The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague""We loved with a love that was more than love""I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity"

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