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Dreams Quotes by Edgar Allan Poe

44 Dreams quotes by Edgar Allan Poe

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Those who dream by day notice many details that night‑time sleepers miss. Poe’s verses link the moon, stars, and love to vivid visions. He also suggests that future life may feel like a dream we once lived. Even when we are awake, a quiet mind can catch a fleeting glimpse of hidden truth.

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Yet mad I am not...and very surely do I not dream.

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It is a happiness to wonder; -- it is a happiness to dream.

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

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Yet, mad am I not — and very surely do I not dream.

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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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A mystery, and a dream, should my early life seem.

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

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“All we see or seem is but a dream within a dream...”

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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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I have been happy, though in a dream. I have been happy-and I love the theme: Dreams! in their vivid colouring of…

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“Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow- You are not wrong, who…

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May the love hidden deep inside your heart find the love waiting in your dreams. May the laughter that you find in…

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“For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And the stars never rise but i feel…

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“You are not wrong, who deem That my days have been a dream... All that we see or seem Is but a…

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“we then busied our souls in dreams—reading, writing, or conversing, until warned by the clock of the advent of the true Darkness.”

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“Yet if Hope has flown away In a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore…

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“Oh, outcast of all outcasts most abandoned! --to the earth art thou not forever dead? to its honors, to its flowers, to…

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For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And the stars never rise but I feel…

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“Dreams! in their vivid coloring of life, As in that fleeting, shadowy, misty strife Of semblance with reality, which brings To the…

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Ceux qui revent eveilles ont conscience de 1000 choses qui echapent a ceux qui ne revent qu'endormis. The one who has day…

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In the one instance, the dreamerloses sight of this object in a wilderness of deductions and suggestionsuntilhe finds the incitamentum, or first…

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“To look at a star by glances - to view it in a side-long way, by turning toward it the exterior portions…

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Fill with mingled cream and amber, I will drain that glass again. Such hilarious visions clamber Through the chamber of my brain…

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Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing, Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortals ever dared to dream before; But…

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“Men have called me mad; but the question is not settled whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence -- whether…

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In visions of the dark night I have dreamed of joy departed- But a waking dream of life and light Hath left…

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“For some months I had been ill in health, but was now convalescent, and, with returning strength, found myself in one of…

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“He impaired his vision by holding the object too close. He might see, perhaps, one or two points with unusual clearness, but…

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“To look at a star by glances—to view it in a side-long way, by turning toward it the exterior portions of the…

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For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams of the beautiful Annabel Lee

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“Is all that we see or seem But a dream within a dream?”

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And all my days are trances, And all my nightly dreams Are where thy dark eye glances, And where thy footstep gleams--…

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Dreams are the eraser dust I blow off my page. They fade into the emptiness, another dark gray day. Dreams are only…

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“In a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less gone? All that we…

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In visions of the dark night I have dreamed of joy departed-- But a waking dream of life and light Hath left…

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It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present…

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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…

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“That holy dream—that holy dream, While all the world were chiding, Hath cheered me as a lovely beam A lonely spirit guiding.”

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We gave the Future to the winds, and slumbered tranquilly in the Present, weaving the dull world around us into dreams.

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“Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow- You are not wrong, who…

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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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And all my days are trances, And all my nightly dreams Are where thy dark eye glances, And where thy footstep gleams-- In what…

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“Other friends have flown before — On the morrow he will leave me, as my hopes have flown before.” Quoth the raven, “Nevermore.”

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“To the right and left, as far as the eye could reach, there lay outstretched, like ramparts of the world, lines of horridly black…

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Men die nightly in their beds, wringing the hands of ghostly confessors ... on account of the hideousness of mysteries which will not suffer…

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And the Raven, never flitting, Still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas Just above my chamber door; And his…

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I was forced to fall back upon the unsatisfactory conclusion, that while, beyond doubt, there are combinations of very simple natural objects which have…

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