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  • #1
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is glorious– whether all that is profound– does not spring from disease of thought– from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect.”
    Edgar Allan Poe, The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

  • #2
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Deep in earth my love is lying
    And I must weep alone.”
    Edgar Allan Poe

  • #3
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.”
    Edgar Allan Poe

  • #4
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.”
    Edgar Allan Poe

  • #5
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.”
    Edgar Allan Poe

  • #6
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Invisible things are the only realities.”
    Edgar Allan Poe, Loss of Breath

  • #7
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “The true genius shudders at incompleteness — imperfection — and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.”
    Edgar Allan Poe, Marginalia

  • #8
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.”
    Edgar Allan Poe

  • #9
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.”
    Edgar Allan Poe

  • #10
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.”
    Edgar Allan Poe, The Poetic Principle

  • #11
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.”
    Edgar Allan Poe

  • #12
    Poe
    “The past is a pebble in my shoe.”
    Poe

  • #13
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.”
    Edgar Allan Poe

  • #14
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “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...”
    Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings

  • #15
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.”
    Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death

  • #16
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. In their gray visions they obtain glimpses of eternity, and thrill, in waking, to find that they have been upon the verge of the great secret. In snatches, they learn something of the wisdom which is of good, and more of the mere knowledge which is of evil.”
    Edgar Allan Poe, Complete Tales and Poems

  • #17
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.”
    Edgar Allan Poe

  • #18
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.”
    Edgar Allan Poe

  • #19
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Stupidity is a talent for misconception.”
    Edgar Allan Poe

  • #20
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Leave my loneliness unbroken”
    Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven

  • #21
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.”
    Edgar Allan Poe, The Mystery of Marie Rogêt

  • #22
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made.”
    Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death

  • #23
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “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.”
    Edgar Allan Poe

  • #24
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “A man's grammar, like Caesar's wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.”
    Edgar Allan Poe

  • #25
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.”
    Edgar Allan Poe, Ne Pariez Jamais Votre

  • #26
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “When, indeed, men speak of Beauty, they mean, precisely, not a quality, as is supposed, but an effect - they refer, in short, just to that intense and pure elevation of soul - not of intellect, or of heart.”
    Edgar Allan Poe

  • #27
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls...”
    Edgar Allan Poe

  • #28
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “In criticism, I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.”
    Edgar Allan Poe

  • #29
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “...that fitful strain of melancholy which will ever be found inseperable from the perfection of the beautiful.”
    Edgar Allan Poe, The Works of Edgar Allen Poe Volume 4

  • #30
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket.”
    Edgar Allan Poe



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