Quotes By Edgar Allan Poe

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

Edgar Allan Poe

I was never really insane, except on occasions where my heart was touched.

Edgar Allan Poe

Sometimes I'm terrified of my heart; of its constant hunger for whatever it is it wants. The way it stops and starts.

Edgar Allan Poe

Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.

Edgar Allan Poe

From childhood's hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone.

Edgar Allan Poe

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 of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door ?

Edgar Allan Poe

I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom.

Edgar Allan Poe

There is no exquisite beauty? without some strangeness in the proportion.

Edgar Allan Poe

I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.

Edgar Allan Poe

We loved with a love that was more than love.

Edgar Allan Poe