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.
EDGAR ALLAN POEAll that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket.
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Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.
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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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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.
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Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
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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.
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The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
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I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.
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The true genius shudders at incompleteness – imperfection – and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.
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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.
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As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.
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Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
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