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Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
American short story author, editor, & poet
| “ | There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction.
The Premature Burial | ” |
| “ | It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve.
The Gold Bug | ” |
| “ | Scorching my seared heart with a pain, not hell shall make me fear again.
Tamerlane, Part II | ” |
| “ | Depend upon it, after all, Thomas, Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man. For my own part, there is no seducing me from the path.
From a letter to Frederick W. Thomas (February 14, 1849). | ” |
| “ | All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
Dream Within a Dream | ” |
| “ | Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.
Berenice | ” |
| “ | Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
"Eleonora" | ” |
| “ | With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion. | ” |
| “ | To be thoroughly conversant with a man's heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of despair. | ” |
| “ | The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led. | ” |
| “ | Sleep, those little slices of death; Oh how I loathe them. | ” |
| “ | Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
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| “ | 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. | ” |
| “ | Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears. | ” |
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