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“We loved with a love that was more than love.”
― Edgar Allen Poe

“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Eleonora

“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“The true genius shudders at incompleteness — imperfection — and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Marginalia

“The past is a pebble in my shoe.”
― Poe

“The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.”
― Edgar Allen Poe, Great Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

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

“That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“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 Allen Poe

“Even in the grave, all is not lost.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“From childhood's hour I have not been
As others were; I have not seen
As others saw; I could not bring
My passions from a common spring.
From the same source I have not taken
My sorrow; I could not awaken
My heart to joy at the same tone;
And all I loved, I loved alone.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe, Vol. 2

“تنها
من از کودکی چنان نبوده ام که دیگران،
چنان ندیده ام که دیگران؛
از بهاری همگانی نمی توانستم به هیجان درآیم
چنانکه آن بهار مرا اندوهگین نیز نمی کرد و
نمی توانستم قلبم را برای لذت بردن از آهنگ آن بیدار کنم.
آنگاه در کودکی ام – در سپیده دم طوفانی ترین زندگی-
که با همه ی خوشی ها و ناخوشی ها آمیخته شده بود،
معمایی مرا به خود گرفتار کرد که هنوز هم نتوانسته ام خود را از چنبره اش رها کنم؛
از رود سیل آسا یا چشمه
از سنگ سرخ کوه
از آفتابی که در پاییز طلایی دور من می گردید
از آذرخش آسمانی که پروار کنان از من عبور می کرد
از طوفان و از کولاک
و ابری که شکل یک شیطان را در نظرگاه من به خود گرفت (درحالیکه باقی جهنم به رنگ آبی بود)”
― Edgar Allen Poe