Famous Edgar Allen Poe Quotations

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"Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears."
by Edgar Allen Poe
"It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve."
by Edgar Allen Poe
"It will be hard to discover a better [method of education] than that which the experience of so many ages has already discovered, and this may be summed up as consisting in gymnastics for the body, and _music_ for the soul... For this reason is a musical education so essential; since it causes Rhythm and Harmony to penetrate most intimately into the soul, taking the strongest hold upon it, filling it with _beauty_ and making the man _beautiful-minded_."
by Plato
"Some things are so completely ludicrous that a man must laugh or die. To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!"
by Edgar Allen Poe
"The ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic."
by Edgar Allen Poe
"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity."
by Edgar Allen Poe
"Sleep... Those slices of death.... How I loathe them."
by Edgar Allen Poe
"I woke, she fled, and day brought back my night."
by edgar allen poe
"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream"
by Edgar Allen Poe
"'Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream by night."
by Edgar Allen Poe
"All that we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream"
by Edgar Allen Poe
"It was night and the rain fell; and, falling, it was rain, but, having fallen, it was blood. And I stood in the morass among the tall lillies, and the rain fell upon my head - and the lillies sighed one unto the other in the solemnity of their desolation."
by Edgar Allen Poe, Silence
"My heart to joy at the same tone; and all I loved, I loved alone."
by Edgar Allen Poe
"In the visions of the dark night I have dreamed of joy departed- But a waking dream of life and light Hath left me broken hearted."
by A Dream, Edgar Allen Poe


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