Edgar Allan Poe

United States
19 Jan 1809 // 7 Oct 1849
Poet

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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
There is no exquisite beauty� without some strangeness in the proportion.
I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.
I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it.

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

Eleonora
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