- All that we see or seem
- Is but a dream within a dream.
EDGAR ALLAN POE, A Dream Within a Dream
The most natural, and, consequently, the truest and most intense of the human affections are those which arise in the heart as if by electric sympathy.
EDGAR ALLAN POE, "The Spectacles"
Decorum -- that bug-bear which deters so many from bliss until the opportunity for bliss has forever gone by.
EDGAR ALLAN POE, "The Spectacles"
The customs of the world are so many conventional follies.
EDGAR ALLAN POE, "The Spectacles"
Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day, or the agonies which are have their origin in the ecstasies which might have been.
EDGAR ALLAN POE, "Berenice"
The realities of the world affected me as visions, and as visions only, while the wild ideas of the land of dreams became, in turn,—not the material of my every-day existence--but in very deed that existence utterly and solely in itself.
EDGAR ALLAN POE, "Berenice"
Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence— whether much that is glorious— whether all that is profound— does not spring from disease of thought— from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect.
EDGAR ALLAN POE, "Eleonora"
They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
EDGAR ALLAN POE, "Eleonora"
- And all my days are trances,
- And all my nightly dreams
- Are where thy grey eye glances,
- And where thy footstep gleams--
- In what ethereal dances,
- By what eternal streams.
EDGAR ALLAN POE, To One in Paradise
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