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Some Favorite Quotes from Edgar Allan Poe
 
Some of Poe's quotes are questionable and really give you a look at the kind of person Poe is. Some of these quotes make me raise my eyebrow, but others are very good, and all of his quotes are intriguing.
 
 

































Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
 
Sleep, those little slices of death; Oh how I loathe them.
 
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
 
With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
 
Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
 
I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.
 
"I have no faith in human perfectability. 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.
 
The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
 
I never can hear a crowd of people singing and gesticulating, all together, at an Italian opera, without fancying myself at Athens, listening to that particular tragedy, by Sophocles, in which he introduces a full chorus of turkeys, who set about bewailing the death of Meleager.
 
It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
 
Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
 
In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.
 
A gentleman with a pug nose is a contradiction in terms.




























In biography, the truth is everything. -Edgar Allan Poe