10 Edgar Allan Poe Quotes That Will Haunt Your Thoughts
Edgar Allan Poe―just hearing his name conjures up ghostly whispers and the rustle of raven wings, doesn’t it? His words, they’re like a cold breeze in a dark room, timeless in their ability to unsettle and mesmerize. So, here’s my little homage to the master of the macabre: I’ve paired ten of his chilling quotes with Odion Redon’s dreamlike, almost otherworldly artwork. It’s a Symbolist-Gothic fusion that feels like a match made in, well, a beautifully eerie dimension. Ready to get those shivers? Let’s begin.
1. “You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.”
― “A Dream Within a Dream”
2. “From childhood’s hour I have not been
As others were – I have not seen
As others saw – I could not bring
My passions from a common spring –
From the same source I have not taken
My sorrow – I could not awaken
My heart to joy at the same tone –
And all I lov’d – I lov’d alone –”
― “Alone”
3. “I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.”
― Letter to Maria Clemm
4. “I was a child and she was a child,
In this kingdom by the sea,
But we loved with
a love that was more than love–
I and my Annabel Lee–
With a love that
the wingèd seraphs of Heaven
Coveted her and me.”
― “Annabel Lee”
5. “Deep into that darkness peering,
long I stood there, wondering, fearing,
Doubting, dreaming dreams
no mortal ever dared to dream before.”
― “The Raven”
6. “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?”
― The Premature Burial
7. “Because I feel that, in the Heavens above,
The angels, whispering to one another,
Can find, among their burning terms of love,
None so devotional as that of Mother.”
― “To My Mother”
8. “Thou wast that all to me, love,
For which my soul did pine—
A green isle in the sea, love,
A fountain and a shrine,
All wreathed with fairy fruits and flowers,
And all the flowers were mine.”
― “To One in Paradise”
9. “Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.”
― The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether
10. “They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
― Eleonora
And that’s a wrap on the hauntingly beautiful words of Edgar Allan Poe! Got a favorite quote? Drop a comment below and feel free to share on your socials (just don’t forget to give The Rockle a shoutout).
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