100+ Edgar Allan Poe Quotes | Minimalist Quotes

Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.
EDGAR ALLAN POE

Growth Imperfection Love Music Stronger
There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.”
EDGAR ALLAN POE

Deep Emotion Heart Touch
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

Anguish Bliss Memories Past
The best things in life make you sweaty.
EDGAR ALLAN POE

Life One Liner Positive Sweat
A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on.
EDGAR ALLAN POE

Candle Reading
Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore.
EDGAR ALLAN POE

Explore Heart Moments Mystery
Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
EDGAR ALLAN POE

Adversity Blessing Inspirational Struggle Suffering
Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
EDGAR ALLAN POE

Misconception One Liner Stupidity Talent
The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
EDGAR ALLAN POE

Genius Incomplete Silence True
I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
EDGAR ALLAN POE

Cat Imagination Mystery One Liner
I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.
EDGAR ALLAN POE

Atmosphere Broken Heart Depression Feeling One Liner Sorror
A man’s grammar, like Caesar’s wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.
EDGAR ALLAN POE

Grammer Man Pure Wife
To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!
EDGAR ALLAN POE

Death Deep Die Glorious Laugh
And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.
EDGAR ALLAN POE

Fall In Love Melancholy Young
All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.
EDGAR ALLAN POE

Deep Dreams Inspirational See
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
EDGAR ALLAN POE

Dare Darkness Doubt Dreams Fear Mortal Wonder
Lord, help my poor soul.
EDGAR ALLAN POE

Help Lord Poor Soul
Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
EDGAR ALLAN POE

Always Arise Experience Irrelevant Perhaps Philosophy True
Deep in earth my love is lying and I must weep alone.
EDGAR ALLAN POE

Alone Broken Heart Cry Deep Earth Lie Love Weep
And I fell violently on my face.
EDGAR ALLAN POE

Face One Liner Violent
Art is to look at not to criticize.
EDGAR ALLAN POE

Art Criticism Look One Liner
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

Demon Fight Frame Insane Instant Myself Original Posses Soul Violence
To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.
EDGAR ALLAN POE

Elevate Necessary One Liner Poetry Soul
Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
EDGAR ALLAN POE

Intelligence Madness Science Teaching
In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
EDGAR ALLAN POE

Effort Fall Nature Soar
I have no faith in human perfectibility. 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.
EDGAR ALLAN POE

Active Appreciation Effect Faith Happiness Human Hurt Man Perfection Wise
Invisible things are the only realities.
EDGAR ALLAN POE

Deep Invisible One Liner Reality

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