More Quotes by Edgar Allan Poe
And all I loved, I loved alone.
Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.
I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
The past is a pebble in my shoe.
That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.
The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.
I have great faith in fools,— self-confidence my friends will call it.
Art is to look at not to criticize.
Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.
I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom.
