The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
EDGAR ALLAN POEAnd all I loved, I loved alone.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
-
-
I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.
EDGAR ALLAN POE -
In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
EDGAR ALLAN POE -
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
EDGAR ALLAN POE -
If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
EDGAR ALLAN POE -
A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on.
EDGAR ALLAN POE -
False hope is nicer than no hope at all.
EDGAR ALLAN POE -
I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.
EDGAR ALLAN POE -
The past is a pebble in my shoe.
EDGAR ALLAN POE -
The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body; and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrilled every fibre of my frame.
EDGAR ALLAN POE -
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
EDGAR ALLAN POE -
The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow.
EDGAR ALLAN POE -
From childhood’s hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone.
EDGAR ALLAN POE -
Lord, help my poor soul.
EDGAR ALLAN POE -
It is a happiness to wonder; it is a happiness to dream.
EDGAR ALLAN POE -
Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.
EDGAR ALLAN POE