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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

Edgar Allan Poe
Inspirational, Life, Clever
Edgar Allan Poe (1980). “The Unknown Poe: An Anthology of Fugitive Writings”, p.8, City Lights Books

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

Edgar Allan Poe
Inspirational, Life, Dream
"A DreamWithin a Dream" l. 10 (1849)

Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.

Edgar Allan Poe
Love, Life, Marriage
Edgar Allan Poe, Thomas Ollive Mabbott (1969). “Complete Poems”, p.137, University of Illinois Press

The best things in life make you sweaty.

Edgar Allan Poe
Life, Philosophical, Purpose

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

Edgar Allan Poe
Love, Inspirational, Life
"The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe".

I have great faith in fools,— self-confidence my friends will call it.

Edgar Allan Poe
Life, Friendship, Confidence
"The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe".

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".

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

Edgar Allan Poe
Inspirational, Life, Religious

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

I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.

Edgar Allan Poe
Inspirational, Life, Writing

Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

Edgar Allan Poe
Life, Happiness, Real
Edgar Allan Poe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)”, p.2124, Delphi Classics

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

Edgar Allan Poe
Life, Fever, Lasts

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

Thou wouldst be loved? - then let thy heart From its present pathway part not! Being everything which now thou art, Be nothing which thou art not. So with the world thy gentle ways, Thy grace, thy more than beauty, Shall be an endless theme of praise, And love - a simple duty.

Edgar Allan Poe
Life, Art, Simple
Edgar Allan Poe (1912). “The Bells and Other Poems”, p.65, Library of Alexandria

The death then of a beautiful woman is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world, and equally is it beyond doubt that the lips best suited for such topic are those of a bereaved lover.

Edgar Allan Poe
Love, Life, Beautiful
Edgar Allan Poe (2016). “Edgar Allan Poe's Complete Poetical Works”, p.149, Lulu.com

In visions of the dark night I have dreamed of joy departed- But a waking dream of life and light Hath left me broken-hearted. Ah! what is not a dream by day To him whose eyes are cast On things around him with a ray Turned back upon the past? That holy dream- that holy dream, While all the world were chiding, Hath cheered me as a lovely beam A lonely spirit guiding. What though that light, thro' storm and night, So trembled from afar- What could there be more purely bright In Truth's day-star?

Edgar Allan Poe
Life, Dream, Lonely
Edgar Allan Poe, Rufus Wilmot Griswold, Nathaniel Parker Willis, James Russell Lowell (1853). “The works of the late Edgar Allan Poe”, p.105

Finally on Sunday morning, October 7, 1849, "He became quiet and seemed to rest for a short time. Then, gently, moving his head," he said, "Lord help my poor soul." As he had lived so he died-in great misery and tragedy.

Edgar Allan Poe
Life, Morning, Moving

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