Edgar Allan Poe Quotes

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Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.

Edgar Allan Poe

Truth, Halloween, Believe

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The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.

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Soul, Monsters

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There is no beauty without some strangeness

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Strangeness

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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

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Inspirational, Life, Clever

Edgar Allan Poe (1980). “The Unknown Poe: An Anthology of Fugitive Writings”, p.8, City Lights Books

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All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

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Inspirational, Life, Dream

"A DreamWithin a Dream" l. 10 (1849)

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The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.

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Wise, Doubters, Catchy

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Those who gossip with you will gossip about you.

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Gossip, Catchy

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Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge

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Acquisition, Found

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Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.

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Love, Life, Marriage

Edgar Allan Poe, Thomas Ollive Mabbott (1969). “Complete Poems”, p.137, University of Illinois Press

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

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Love, Dream, Art

"The Raven" l. 25 (1845)

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I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.

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Mind, Losing, Losing My Mind

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Never to suffer would have been never to have been blessed.

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Spiritual, Blessed, Adversity

"Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales & Poems".

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If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.

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Men, Catchy, Shame

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If a poem hasn't ripped apart your soul; you haven't experienced poetry.

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Soul, Torn Apart, Havens

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All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.

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Attachment, Suffering, Desire

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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.

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Lying, Boots, World

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And now have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but overacuteness of the senses?

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Mistake, Madness, Senses

"The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe".

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A wise man hears one word and understands two.

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Wise, Men, Two

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Me volví loco, con largos intervalos de horrible cordura.

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Horrible

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The best things in life make you sweaty.

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Life, Philosophical, Purpose

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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

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Writing, Thoughtful, Reality

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They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

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Love, Inspirational, Life

"The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe".

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The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow

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Eye, Mirrors, Sorrow

Edgar Allan Poe (2004). “The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe”, p.136, Wordsworth Editions

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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.

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Funny, Pain, Memories

Edgar Allan Poe, Simon Marsden (1988). “Visions of Poe: a personal selection of Edgar Allan Poe's stories and poems”, Michael Joseph

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And so, being young and dipt in folly, I fell in love with melancholy.

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Love, Inspirational, Life

"The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe".

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Born: January 19, 1809
Died: October 7, 1849
Occupation: Author
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