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"I have great faith in fools self-confidence my friends call it."
19+ Quotes by Edgar Allan Poe
A curated collection of 19 inspirational quotes by Edgar Allan Poe on life, wisdom, and the human experience.
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"Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words."
— Edgar Allan Poe
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"The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led."
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"I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty."
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"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night."
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"All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry."
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"Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears."
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"Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears."
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"Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears."
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"Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears."
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"Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before."
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"Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before."
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"Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant."
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"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."
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"I have no faith in human perfectability. 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."
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"There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man."
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"Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist."
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"Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist."
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"Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist."