Edgar Allan Poe

11 quotations
All that we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream.
Edgar Allan Poe · Dreams
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Edgar Allan Poe · Dreams
Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
Edgar Allan Poe · Expectation
I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
Edgar Allan Poe · Insanity
Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance.
Edgar Allan Poe · Memory
The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
Edgar Allan Poe · Mobs
With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
Edgar Allan Poe · Poetry and Poets
I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence.
Edgar Allan Poe · Self-confidence
To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.
Edgar Allan Poe · Slander
Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
Edgar Allan Poe · Beauty
That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
Edgar Allan Poe · Coward and Cowardice

Subjects Edgar Allan Poe spoke about

Beauty Coward and Cowardice Dreams Expectation Insanity Memory Mobs Poetry and Poets Self-confidence Slander