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Edgar Allan Poe Quotations

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All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.
Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
Scorching my seared heart with a pain, not hell shall make me fear again.
Edgar Allan Poe - Tamerlane
US short story author, editor, & poet
1809 - 1849
There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction.
Edgar Allan Poe - The Premature Burial
US short story author, editor, & poet
1809 - 1849
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.
Depend upon it, after all, Thomas, Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man. For my own part, there is no seducing me from the path.
Edgar Allan Poe - From a letter to Frederick W. Thomas (February 14
US short story author, editor, & poet
1809 - 1849
I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity
I have great faith in fools -- self confidence my friends call it.
Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.
I have great faith in fools; self-confidence, my friends call it.
Sleep, those little slices of death; Oh how I loathe them.
Sleep, those little slices of death, how I loathe them.
Children are never too tender to be whipped. Like tough beefsteaks, the more you beat them, the more tender they become.

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