Edgar Allan Poe (born January 19, 1809, Boston, Massachusetts, US died October. . His story “Murder in the Rue Morgue” (1841) started the modern detective story, and the atmosphere in horror stories predominated in . His “The Raven” (1845) counts among the most famous poems in national literature.
Labeled as “mad” by many, here are quotes by Edgar Allen Poe about madness, beauty and dreams. .
“I became insane with long intervals of horrible sanity. Between these things, completely unaware, I drank – God alone knows how often or how much. to the point of insanity.” — Edgar Allan Poe Quote About Insanity
Science has not yet taught us whether madness is or is not a sublimity of intelligence. — Edgar Allan Poe Quote About Insanity
“Everything we see or see is a dream within a dream.” — Edgar Allan Poe Quote About Dreams
“Looking into the abyss into this darkness, while I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming, such as no mortal ever dared to dream.” — Edgar Allan Poe Quote About Dreams
“It is no irrational fantasy that in the future we will see the existence of the present, as we think it is a dream.” — Edgar Allan Poe Quote About Dreams
“That pleasure, which is the purest, the most sublime, and the most intense, I think is derived from beautiful contemplation.” — Edgar Allan Poe
“The most beautiful woman is undoubtedly a poetic place in the world.” — Edgar Allan Poe
“Ninety-nine are dreams, content but the hope of a new world made, the one percent is the person who grimly intends to make dreams come true.” — Edgar Allan Poe Quote About Dreams
“Beauty of any kind, in its highest development, always moves the sensitive soul to tears.” — Edgar Allan Poe
“I would define, briefly, the poetry of words as the numerous creation of Beauty.” — Edgar Allan Poe
“The boundaries that divide life from death are very fine and obscure. Who, where is the end, and where does the other begin?” — Edgar Allan Poe Quote
“True genius trembles at the imperfect – and it is usually better to be silent than to say something that is not all it should be.” — Edgar Allan Poe Quote
Edgar Allen Poe Quotes and Biography
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