Edgar Allan Poe - Quotes WorldQuoteshttps://www.quotes.sandybook.in/edgar-allan-poe2024-03-28T22:37:22+00:00Quotes Worldsandybook.in@gmail.comJoomla! - Open Source Content ManagementEdgar Allan Poe Quote & Sayings2015-05-05T06:21:52+00:002015-05-05T06:21:52+00:00https://www.quotes.sandybook.in/edgar-allan-poe/116-edgar-allan-poe-quote-sayingsSandybooksandybook.in@gmail.com<p><img src="http://quotes.sandybook.in/pics/intro/Edgar%20Allan%20Poe.jpg" /></p><p>And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.<br /><strong></strong></p>
<p><strong>Edgar Allan Poe</strong></p>
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<p>If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.<strong><br /></strong></p>
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<p><strong>Edgar Allan Poe</strong></p>
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<p>The best things in life make you sweaty.<strong><br /></strong></p>
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<p><strong>Edgar Allan Poe</strong></p>
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<p>Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.<strong><br /></strong></p>
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<p><strong>Edgar Allan Poe</strong></p>
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<p>I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.<strong><br /></strong></p>
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<p><strong>Edgar Allan Poe</strong></p>
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<p>There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.<strong><br /></strong></p>
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<p><strong>Edgar Allan Poe</strong></p>
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<p>In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.<strong><br /></strong></p>
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<p><strong>Edgar Allan Poe</strong></p>
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<p>That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.<strong><br /></strong></p>
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<p><strong>Edgar Allan Poe</strong></p>
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<p>The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.<strong><br /></strong></p>
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<p><strong>Edgar Allan Poe</strong></p>
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<p>All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.<strong><br /></strong></p>
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<p><strong>Edgar Allan Poe</strong></p>
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<p>The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?<strong><br /></strong></p>
<p><strong>Edgar Allan Poe<hr /></strong>All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.<strong><br /></strong></p>
<p><strong>Edgar Allan Poe<hr /></strong>There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.<strong><br /></strong></p>
<p><strong>Edgar Allan Poe<hr /></strong>To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.<strong><br /></strong></p>
<p><strong>Edgar Allan Poe<hr /></strong>The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.<strong><br /></strong></p>
<p><strong>Edgar Allan Poe<hr /></strong>I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.<strong><br /></strong></p>
<p><strong>Edgar Allan Poe<hr /></strong>It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.<strong><br /></strong></p>
<p><strong>Edgar Allan Poe<hr /></strong>In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.<strong><br /></strong></p>
<p><strong>Edgar Allan Poe<hr /></strong>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.<strong><br /></strong></p>
<p><strong>Edgar Allan Poe</strong></p>
<p></p><p><img src="http://quotes.sandybook.in/pics/intro/Edgar%20Allan%20Poe.jpg" /></p><p>And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.<br /><strong></strong></p>
<p><strong>Edgar Allan Poe</strong></p>
<hr />
<p>If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.<strong><br /></strong></p>
<p></p>
<p><strong>Edgar Allan Poe</strong></p>
<hr />
<p>The best things in life make you sweaty.<strong><br /></strong></p>
<p></p>
<p><strong>Edgar Allan Poe</strong></p>
<hr />
<p>Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.<strong><br /></strong></p>
<p></p>
<p><strong>Edgar Allan Poe</strong></p>
<hr />
<p>I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.<strong><br /></strong></p>
<p></p>
<p><strong>Edgar Allan Poe</strong></p>
<hr />
<p>There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.<strong><br /></strong></p>
<p></p>
<p><strong>Edgar Allan Poe</strong></p>
<hr />
<p>In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.<strong><br /></strong></p>
<p></p>
<p><strong>Edgar Allan Poe</strong></p>
<hr />
<p>That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.<strong><br /></strong></p>
<p></p>
<p><strong>Edgar Allan Poe</strong></p>
<hr />
<p>The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.<strong><br /></strong></p>
<p></p>
<p><strong>Edgar Allan Poe</strong></p>
<hr />
<p>All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.<strong><br /></strong></p>
<p></p>
<p><strong>Edgar Allan Poe</strong></p>
<hr />
<p>The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?<strong><br /></strong></p>
<p><strong>Edgar Allan Poe<hr /></strong>All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.<strong><br /></strong></p>
<p><strong>Edgar Allan Poe<hr /></strong>There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.<strong><br /></strong></p>
<p><strong>Edgar Allan Poe<hr /></strong>To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.<strong><br /></strong></p>
<p><strong>Edgar Allan Poe<hr /></strong>The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.<strong><br /></strong></p>
<p><strong>Edgar Allan Poe<hr /></strong>I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.<strong><br /></strong></p>
<p><strong>Edgar Allan Poe<hr /></strong>It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.<strong><br /></strong></p>
<p><strong>Edgar Allan Poe<hr /></strong>In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.<strong><br /></strong></p>
<p><strong>Edgar Allan Poe<hr /></strong>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.<strong><br /></strong></p>
<p><strong>Edgar Allan Poe</strong></p>
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