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Edgar Allan Poe [1809-1849] American

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Poet (with poems), Writer

Bipolar disorder, Dark romanticism, Didactism, Fantasy, Gothic, Romanticism, Symbolism, Victorian

Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre.

Imagination, Poetry, Beauty, Death, Dreams, Faith, Great, Life, Nature, Religion, Truth, Art, Best, Experience, Fear, Friendship, Future, Hope, Intelligence, Love, Pet, Power, Romantic, Science, Time

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All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.	Romantic	89
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.	Dreams	101
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?	Best, Death, Life	102
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.	Power	103
I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.	Beauty, Poetry	104
I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.		105
Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.	Intelligence, Science	106
They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.	Imagination	107
I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.	Faith	109
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.		110
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.		111
I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.	Pet	112
The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.		113
Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.	Life	114
I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.	Faith, Great	115
It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.	Future	116
Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.	Beauty	117
Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'	Art, Nature	118
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.	Friendship	119
In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.		120
The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.	Imagination, Time	121
With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.	Poetry	122
To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.	Great	123
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.		124
Stupidity is a talent for misconception.		125
I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.		126
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.	Fear, Imagination, Poetry, Religion	201
It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.		202
The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.	Death	203
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.	Dreams, Hope	204
Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.	Experience, Truth	205
We loved with a love that was more than love.	Love	206
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.		207
That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.		208
The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.		209
If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.		210
Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.		211
It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.	Nature, Truth	212
The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.		213
I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.		214
I need scarcely observe that a poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul. The value of the poem is in the ratio of this elevating excitement.		215
A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.	Religion	216
Lord, help my poor soul.		217

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