Senses Quotes by Edgar Allan Poe

8 Senses quotes by Edgar Allan Poe

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Poe’s dark, vivid imagery of perception is captured in eight short lines. The collection gives a quick taste of his haunting take on how we sense and interpret reality.

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The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist

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And now have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but overacuteness of the senses?

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“what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the senses?—”

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That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.

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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…

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“TRUE! – nervous – very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?…

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True, nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am, but why will say that I am mad?! The disease had…

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The reproduction of what the senses perceive in nature through the veil of the soul.

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“For eyes we have no models in the remotely antique.”

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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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“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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