More Quotes by Edgar Allan Poe
To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!
Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is glorious– whether all that is profound– does not spring from disease of thought– from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect.
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.
They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night
If a poem hasn't ripped apart your soul; you haven't experienced poetry.
There is no beauty without some strangeness
I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.
Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.
The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.
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.
