A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on.
EDGAR ALLAN POEIn efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
-
-
When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket.
EDGAR ALLAN POE -
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
EDGAR ALLAN POE -
Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
EDGAR ALLAN POE -
Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
EDGAR ALLAN POE -
The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
EDGAR ALLAN POE -
There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.
EDGAR ALLAN POE -
I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
EDGAR ALLAN POE -
Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.
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 scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.
EDGAR ALLAN POE -
Even for those to whom life and death are equal jests. There are some things that are still held in respect.
EDGAR ALLAN POE -
Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.
EDGAR ALLAN POE -
A wise man hears one word and understands two.
EDGAR ALLAN POE -
I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.
EDGAR ALLAN POE -
With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
EDGAR ALLAN POE -
There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.
EDGAR ALLAN POE -
All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
EDGAR ALLAN POE -
Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
EDGAR ALLAN POE -
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
EDGAR ALLAN POE -
We loved with a love that was more than love.
EDGAR ALLAN POE -
I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.
EDGAR ALLAN POE -
Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
EDGAR ALLAN POE -
Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore.
EDGAR ALLAN POE -
If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
EDGAR ALLAN POE -
Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge.
EDGAR ALLAN POE -
Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day; or the agonies which are have their origins in ecstasies which might have been.
EDGAR ALLAN POE