"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."
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Edgar Allan Poe
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Quotes by Edgar Allan Poe
"For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side Of my darling- my darling- my life and my bride, In the sepulchre there by the sea, In her tomb by the sounding sea."
"To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary."
"The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true."
"And all I loved, I loved alone."
"The best things in life make you sweaty."
"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity."
"The best things in life make you sweaty."
"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 has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom."
"Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears."
"We loved with a love that was more than love."
"All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry."
"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream."
"We loved with a love that was more than love."
"Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die."
"I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched."
"Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'"
"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."
"Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear."
"The best things in life make you sweaty."