Edgar Allan Poe Quotes, Status, and Thoughts

Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.

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

Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge

I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.

All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.

If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.

If you run out of ideas follow the road; you'll get there

Never to suffer would have been never to have been blessed.

False hope is nicer than no hope at all.

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

If a poem hasn't ripped apart your soul; you haven't experienced poetry.

The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow

To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!

I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.

Invisible things are the only realities.

Art is to look at not to criticize.

Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.

To observe attentively is to remember distinctly.

There are some secrets that do not permit themselves to be told.

The best things in life make you sweaty.

I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.

all I loved, I loved alone.

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

To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.

Me volví loco, con largos intervalos de horrible cordura.

To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.