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You are not wrong who deem That my days have been a dream; Yet if hope has flown away In a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less gone? All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a

You are not wrong who deem That my days have been a dream; Yet if hope has flown away In a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less gone? All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream.

Edgar Allan Poe
Dream, Night, Vision
"A DreamWithin a Dream" l. 10 (1849)

You will observe that the stories told are all about money-seekers, not about money-finders.

Edgar Allan Poe
Stories, Seekers
Edgar Allan Poe (2015). “The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Stories”, p.225, First Avenue Editions

The fever called "living" Is conquer'd at last.

Edgar Allan Poe
Life, Fever, Lasts

I fell in love with melancholy

Edgar Allan Poe
Melancholy
Edgar Allan Poe (1984). “Poetry and Tales”, p.54, Library of America

You call it hope-that fire of fire! It is but agony of desire.

Edgar Allan Poe
Fire, Agony, Desire
Edgar Allan Poe (2016). “Edgar Allan Poe's Complete Poetical Works”, p.70, Lulu.com

The pioneers and missionaries of religion have been the real cause of more trouble and war than all other classes of mankind.

Edgar Allan Poe
Real, War, Class

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.

Edgar Allan Poe
Life, Dream, Inspiration

I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.

Edgar Allan Poe
Events, Results, Dread
Edgar Allan Poe (2016). “The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe”, p.302, Xist Publishing

The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.

Edgar Allan Poe
Time, Imagination, Noses
1849 'Marginalia', in the Southern Literary Messenger, Jul.

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

Edgar Allan Poe
Courage, Thoughtful, Men
Edgar Allan Poe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)”, p.2136, Delphi Classics

I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.

Edgar Allan Poe
Atmosphere, Sorrow, Melancholy
Edgar Allan Poe (2004). “The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe”, p.174, Wordsworth Editions

Indeed, there is an eloquence in true enthusiasm that is not to be doubted.

Edgar Allan Poe
Enthusiasm, Eloquence, Doubted
Edgar Allan Poe, Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Sir Walter Scott, Wilhelm Hauff (2011). “The Best Ghost Stories 1800-1849: A Classic Ghost Anthology”, p.17, Bottletree Books LLC

And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door, That I scarce was sure I heard you"— here I opened wide the door; — Darkness there, and nothing more.

Edgar Allan Poe
Doors, Darkness, Heard
Edgar Allan Poe (2015). “A Classic Crime Collection”, p.168, Simon and Schuster

...the agony of my soul found vent in one loud, long and final scream of despair.

Edgar Allan Poe
Agony, Long, Soul
Edgar Allan Poe (2015). “The Complete Tales of Edgar Allan Poe”, p.408, Lulu.com

Children are never too tender to be whipped. Like tough beefsteaks, the more you beat them, the more tender they become.

Edgar Allan Poe
Children, Tough, Beats
Edgar Allan Poe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)”, p.2184, Delphi Classics

The customs of the world are so many conventional follies.

Edgar Allan Poe
World, Folly, Conventional
Edgar Allan Poe (2004). “The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe”, p.455, Wordsworth Editions

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe
Convince, Convinced
Edgar Allan Poe (2004). “The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe”, p.165, Wordsworth Editions

Deep in earth my love is lying And I must weep alone.

Edgar Allan Poe
Sad, Lying, Love Is
Edgar Allan Poe, Thomas Ollive Mabbott (1969). “Complete Poems”, p.396, University of Illinois Press

Yet, mad am I not — and very surely do I not dream.

Edgar Allan Poe
Dream, Mad, Sanity
"The Raven and the Monkey's Paw: Classics of Horror and Suspense".

And the Raven, never flitting, Still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas Just above my chamber door; And his eyes have all the seeming Of a demon's that is dreaming, And the lamplight o'er him streaming Throws his shadow on the floor, And my soul from out that shadow, That lies floating on the floor, Shall be lifted - nevermore.

Edgar Allan Poe
Dream, Lying, Eye
"The Raven" l. 107 (1845)

I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.

Edgar Allan Poe
Weakness, Atrocities, Causes
Edgar Allan Poe (2004). “The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe”, p.63, Wordsworth Editions

When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket.

Edgar Allan Poe
Madmen, Jackets, Sane
Edgar Allan Poe (1984). “Poetry and Tales”, p.713, Library of America

Come little children I'll take thee away, into a land of Enchantment Come little children the time's come to play here in my garden of Shadows Follow sweet children I'll show thee the way through all the pain and the Sorrows Weep not poor childlen for life is this way murdering beauty and Passions Hush now dear children it must be this way to weary of life and Deceptions Rest now my children for soon we'll away into the calm and the Quiet Come little children I'll take thee away, into a land of Enchantment Come little children the time's come to play here in my garden of Shadows

Edgar Allan Poe
Sweet, Children, Pain

If you are ever drowned or hung, be sure and make a note of your sensations.

Edgar Allan Poe
Notes, Hung, Ifs
Edgar Allan Poe (2004). “The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe”, p.312, Wordsworth Editions

That single thought is enough. The impulse increases to a wish, the wish to a desire, the desire to an uncontrollable longing, and the longing (to the deep regret and mortification of the speaker, and in defiance of all consequences,) is indulged.

Edgar Allan Poe
Regret, Wish, Desire
Edgar Allan Poe, Stuart Levine, Susan Levine (1976). “The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe: An Annotated Edition”, p.269, University of Illinois Press

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