Edgar Allan Poe Famous Quotes



"Take this kiss upon the brow And, in parting from you now,Thus much let me avow--You are not wrong who deemThat my days have been a dreamYet if hope has flown awayIn a night, or in a day,In a vision, or in none,Is it therefore the less goneAll that we see or seemIs but a dream within a dream."

I have great faith in fools -- self confidence my friends call it.

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

"It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve."

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

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

"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."

"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity"

Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.

"Convinced myself, I seek not to convince."


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