Edgar Allan Poe Quotes

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

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Soul, Monsters

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• And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting...

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  Ravens, Sitting Still, Nevermore

  "The Raven" l. 103 (1845)

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

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  Truth, Halloween, Believe

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• There is no beauty without some strangeness

  Edgar Allan Poe

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

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  Lying, Boots, World

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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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• A wise man hears one word and understands two.

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  Wise, Men, Two

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

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  Attachment, Suffering, Desire

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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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• The best things in life make you sweaty.

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  Life, Philosophical, Purpose

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• Me volví loco, con largos intervalos de horrible cordura.

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  Horrible

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• The past is a pebble in my shoe.

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  Past, Shoes, Legacy

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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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• 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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• Invisible things are the only realities.

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  Halloween, Reality, Invisible

  Edgar Allan Poe, Thomas Ollive Mabbott, Eleanor D. Kewer, Maureen Cobb Mabbott (2000). “Tales and Sketches: 1831-1842”, p.64, University of Illinois Press

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• Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.

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  Should, Reader, Dies

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• Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.

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  Men, Thinking, Mystery

  Edgar Allan Poe, Stuart Levine, Susan Levine (1976). “The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe: An Annotated Edition”, p.370, University of Illinois Press

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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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