All Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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.'
Edgar Allan Poe
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They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Edgar Allan Poe
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I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.
Edgar Allan Poe
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All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
Edgar Allan Poe in
Poetry
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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
Edgar Allan Poe
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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.
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It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.
Edgar Allan Poe in
Imagination
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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.
Edgar Allan Poe
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The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
Edgar Allan Poe
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It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
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I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.
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Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
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