Edgar Allan Poe Quotes, Dream Quotes, Reality Quotes

The realities of the world affected me as visions, and as visions only, while the wild ideas of the land of dreams became, in turn,—not the material of my every-day existence--but in very deed that existence utterly and solely in itself.

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I call to mind flatness and dampness; and then all is madness - the madness of a memory which busies itself among forbidden things.

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Blood was its Avatar and its seal.

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To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.

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And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door, That I scarce was sure I heard you"— here I opened wide the door; — Darkness there, and nothing more.

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Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore--While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As if some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. "'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door--Only this and nothing more.

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Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day; or the agonies which are have their origins in ecstasies which might have been.

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-ev'n with us the breath Of Science dims the mirror of our joy.

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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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If you are ever drowned or hung, be sure and make a note of your sensations.

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

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If the propositions of this Discourse are tenable, the "state of progressive collapse" is precisely that state in which alone we are warranted in considering All Things.

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Marking a book is literally an experience of your differences or agreements with the author. It is the highest respect you can pay him.

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Thou wouldst be loved? - then let thy heart From its present pathway part not! Being everything which now thou art, Be nothing which thou art not. So with the world thy gentle ways, Thy grace, thy more than beauty, Shall be an endless theme of praise, And love - a simple duty.

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Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

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The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

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A man's grammar, like Caesar's wife, must not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.

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Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness.

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And because our reason violently deters us from the brink, therefore, do we the more impetuously approach it. There is no passion in nature so demoniacally impatient, as that of him, who shuddering upon the edge of a precipice, thus meditates a plunge. To indulge for a moment, in any attempt at thought, is to be inevitably lost; for reflection but urges us to forbear, and therefore it is, I say, that we cannot. If there be no friendly arm to check us, or if we fail in a sudden effort to prostrate ourselves backward from the abyss, we plunge, and are destroyed.

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There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told. Men die nightly in their beds, wringing the hands of ghostly confessors, and looking them piteously in the eyes - die with despair of heart and convulsion of throat, on account of the hideousness of mysteries which will not suffer themselves to be revealed. Now and then, alas, the conscience of man takes up a burden so heavy in horror that it can be thrown down only into the grave. And thus the essence of all crime is undivulged.

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