Edgar Allan Poe Quotes, Believe Quotes, Writing Quotes

Few persons can be made to believe that it is not quite an easy thing to invent a method of secret writing that shall baffle investigation. Yet it may be roundly asserted that human ingenuity cannot concoct a cipher which human ingenuity cannot resolve.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Believe Quotes , Writing Quotes

The fever called "living" Is conquer'd at last.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Life Quotes , Fever Quotes

There are few persons, even among the calmest thinkers, who have not occasionally been startled into a vague yet thrilling half credence in the supernatural, by coincidences of so seemingly marvellous a character that, as mere coincidences, the intellect has been unable to receive them.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Character Quotes , Half Quotes

Ceux qui revent eveilles ont conscience de 1000 choses qui echapent a ceux qui ne revent qu'endormis. The one who has day dream are aware of 1000 things that the one who dreams only when he sleeps will never understand. (it sounds better in french, I do what I can with my translation...)

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Dream Quotes , Sleep Quotes

There are some qualities, some incorporate things, that have a double life, which thus is made. A type os twin entity which springs from matter and light, envinced in solid and shade.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Spring Quotes , Light Quotes

Come little children I'll take thee away, into a land of Enchantment Come little children the time's come to play here in my garden of Shadows Follow sweet children I'll show thee the way through all the pain and the Sorrows Weep not poor childlen for life is this way murdering beauty and Passions Hush now dear children it must be this way to weary of life and Deceptions Rest now my children for soon we'll away into the calm and the Quiet Come little children I'll take thee away, into a land of Enchantment Come little children the time's come to play here in my garden of Shadows

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Sweet Quotes , Children Quotes

Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Life And Death Quotes , Matter Quotes

By undue profundity we perplex and enfeeble thought; and it is possible to make even Venus herself vanish from the firmament by a scrutiny too sustained, too concentrated, or too direct.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Venus Quotes , Scrutiny Quotes

Dreams are the eraser dust I blow off my page. They fade into the emptiness, another dark gray day. Dreams are only memories of the plans I had back then. Dreams are eraser dust and now I use a pen.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Dream Quotes , Memories Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Soul Quotes

Fill with mingled cream and amber, I will drain that glass again. Such hilarious visions clamber Through the chamber of my brain — Quaintest thoughts — queerest fancies Come to life and fade away; What care I how time advances? I am drinking ale today.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Food Quotes , Drinking Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Lying Quotes , Boots Quotes

There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Heart Quotes , Emotion Quotes

I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Weakness Quotes , Atrocities Quotes

The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Artist Quotes , Men Quotes

Boston: Their hotels are bad. Their pumpkin pies are delicious. Their poetry is not so good.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Boston Quotes , Pie Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Passion Quotes , Impatient Quotes

Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Should Have Quotes , Mad Quotes

Even in the grave, all is not lost.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Slumber Quotes , Lost Quotes

O, Times! O, Manners! It is my opinion That you are changing sadly your dominion I mean the reign of manners hath long ceased, For men have none at all, or bad at least; And as for times, altho' 'tis said by many The "good old times" were far the worst of any, Of which sound Doctrine I believe each tittle Yet still I think these worst a little. I've been a thinking -isn't that the phrase?- I like your Yankee words and Yankee ways - I've been a thinking, whether it were best To Take things seriously, Or all in jest

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Believe Quotes , Mean Quotes