All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. -Edgar Allan Poe
The customs of the world are so many conventional follies. -Edgar Allan Poe
They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. -Edgar Allan Poe
Melancholy is.. the most legitimate of all the poetical tones. -Edgar Allan Poe
Love like mine can never be gotten over. -Edgar Allan Poe
Man is an animal that diddles, and there is no animal that diddles but man. -Edgar Allan Poe
I was never really insane except upon occasions where my heart was touched. -Edgar Allan Poe
I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity. -Edgar Allan Poe
Never to suffer would never to have been blessed. -Edgar Allan Poe
If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered. -Edgar Allan Poe
beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears. -Edgar Allan Poe
I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat. -Edgar Allan Poe
Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so. -Edgar Allan Poe
I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty. -Edgar Allan Poe
Beauty is the sole legitimate province of the poem. -Edgar Allan Poe