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And so, being young and dipt in folly, I fell in love with melancholy.

And so, being young and dipt in folly, I fell in love with melancholy.

Edgar Allan Poe
Love, Inspirational, Life
"The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe".

Always keep a big bottle of booze at your side. If a bird starts talking nonsense to you in the middle of the night pour yourself a stiff drink.

Edgar Allan Poe
Night, Talking, Your Side
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There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.

Edgar Allan Poe
Secret, Permit
Edgar Allan Poe (1927). “Tales by Edgar Allan Poe”, p.249, Dimitrios Spyridon Chytiris

False hope is nicer than no hope at all.

Edgar Allan Poe
Catchy, False Hope, No Hope

If you run out of ideas follow the road; you'll get there

Edgar Allan Poe
Running, Persistence, Ideas

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

Edgar Allan Poe
Writing, Thoughtful, Reality

Invisible things are the only realities.

Edgar Allan Poe
Halloween, Reality, Invisible
Edgar Allan Poe, Thomas Ollive Mabbott, Eleanor D. Kewer, Maureen Cobb Mabbott (2000). “Tales and Sketches: 1831-1842”, p.64, University of Illinois Press

And all I loved, I loved alone.

Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe (2008). “Edgar Allan Poe's Annotated Poems”, p.172, Bottletree Books LLC

Art is to look at not to criticize.

Edgar Allan Poe
Art, Looks, Criticize

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

Edgar Allan Poe
Inspirational, Life, Religious

Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.

Edgar Allan Poe
Should, Reader, Dies

Even in the grave, all is not lost.

Edgar Allan Poe
Slumber, Lost, Pendulums
Edgar Allan Poe (2015). “The Pit and the Pendulum”, p.4, Booklassic

To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.

Edgar Allan Poe
Thoughtful, Greatness, Men
1849 Marginalia1844-49.

The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow

Edgar Allan Poe
Eye, Mirrors, Sorrow
Edgar Allan Poe (2004). “The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe”, p.136, Wordsworth Editions

To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!

Edgar Allan Poe
Laughing, Glorious, Dies
Edgar Allan Poe (2008). “Edgar Allan Poe Annotated and Illustrated Entire Stories and Poems”, p.37, Bottletree Books LLC

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

Edgar Allan Poe
Inspirational, Life, Death
Edgar Allan Poe (2006). “The Best of Poe”, p.134, Prestwick House Inc

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.

Edgar Allan Poe
Beauty, Beautiful, Intense
Edgar Allan Poe, Gary Richard Thompson (1984). “Essays and Reviews”, p.78, Library of America

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.

Edgar Allan Poe
Midnight, Literature, Weak
"The Raven" l. 1 (1845)

Sometimes I’m terrified of my heart; of its constant hunger for whatever it is it wants. The way it stops and starts.

Edgar Allan Poe
Heartbreak, I Hate You, Want

The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.

Edgar Allan Poe
Ocean, Storm, Encounters

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.

Edgar Allan Poe
Depression, Spring, Science
Edgar Allan Poe (1927). “Tales by Edgar Allan Poe”, p.117, Dimitrios Spyridon Chytiris

To observe attentively is to remember distinctly.

Edgar Allan Poe
Memories, Thoughtful, Remember
Edgar Allan Poe (2014). “Classics Reimagined, Edgar Allan Poe: Stories & Poems”, p.97, Rockport Pub

Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.

Edgar Allan Poe
Intelligent, Men, Mad
Edgar Allan Poe (2004). “The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe”, p.494, Wordsworth Editions

There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.

Edgar Allan Poe
Heart, Emotion, Reckless
Edgar Allan Poe (2013). “The Tell-Tale Heart: And Other Stories - Purloined Letter, Descent into the Maelström, Von Kempelen and His Discovery, Mesmeric Revelation, Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar, Black Cat, Fall of the House of Usher, Masque of the Red Death and Many More”, p.183, Lulu Press, Inc

Dreams are the eraser dust I blow off my page. They fade into the emptiness, another dark gray day. Dreams are only memories of the plans I had back then. Dreams are eraser dust and now I use a pen.

Edgar Allan Poe
Dream, Memories, Dark

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