Edgar Allan Poe Quotes - Quotes About Insanity, Beauty, and Dreams

Edgar Allan Poe, (born January 19, 1809, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.-died October 7, 1849, Baltimore, Maryland) American short-story writer, poet, critic, and editor who is famous for his cultivation of mystery and the macabre. His tale "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" (1841) initiated the modern detective story, and the atmosphere in his tales of horror is unrivaled in American fiction. His "The Raven" (1845) numbers among the best-known poems in the national literature.

Labeled as "insane" by many, here are quotes by Edgar Allen Poe about insanity, beauty, and dreams.

"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity. During these fits of absolute unconsciousness, I drank - God only knows how often or how much. As a matter of course, my enemies referred the insanity to the drink, rather than the drink to the insanity." -- Edgar Allan Poe Quote About Insanity

"Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence." -- Edgar Allan Poe Quote About Insanity

"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." -- Edgar Allan Poe Quote About Dreams

"Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before." -- Edgar Allan Poe Quote About Dreams

"It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream." -- Edgar Allan Poe Quote About Dreams

"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 Quote About Beauty

"The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world." -- Edgar Allan Poe Quote About Beauty

"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 Quote About Dreams

"Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears." -- Edgar Allan Poe Quote About Beauty

"I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty." -- Edgar Allan Poe Quote About Beauty

"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 Quote

"The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be." -- Edgar Allan Poe Quote

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