Edgar Allan Poe Quotes: A collection of Edgar Allan Poe quotations that will inspire you. He was a poet, critic, and editor from the United States. He is known for his evocative short stories and poetry that piqued the curiosity and imagination of people all over the world. His mystery and horror stories are often regarded as the origins of contemporary detective fiction. In the Baltimore house of his aunt Maria Clemn, where Poe remained from 1831 to 1835, there is a museum devoted to Edgar Allan Poe.
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1. Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
2. Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
3. The true genius shudders at incompleteness — imperfection — and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.
4. Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.
5. There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.
6. Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
7. Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
8. Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge.
9. Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
10. It is a happiness to wonder – it is a happiness to dream.
11. A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
12. If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
13. I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
14. Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.
15. A judge at common law may be an ordinary man; a good judge of a carpet must be a genius.
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