If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me. Edgar Allan Poe More Quotes by Edgar Allan Poe More Quotes From Edgar Allan Poe ...And, all at once, the moon arouse through the thin ghastly mist, And was crimson in color... And they lynx which dwelleth forever in the tomb, came out therefrom. And lay down at the feet of the demon. And looked at him steadily in the face. Edgar Allan Poe color moon feet I might refer at once, if necessary, to a hundred well authenticated instances. One of very remarkable character, and of which the circumstances may be fresh in the memory of some of my readers, occurred, not very long ago, in the neighboring city of Baltimore, where it occasioned a painful, intense, and widely extended excitement. Edgar Allan Poe long-ago character memories In beauty of face no maiden ever equaled her. It was the radiance of an opium-dream - an airy and spirit-lifting vision more wildly divine than the fantasies which hovered about the slumbering souls of the daughters of Delos. Edgar Allan Poe daughter soul dream Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells, From the bells, bells, bells. Edgar Allan Poe bells-ringing silver-bells icy How much more intense is the excitement wrought in the feelings of a crowd by the contemplation of human agony, than that brought about by the most appalling spectacles of inanimate matter. Edgar Allan Poe crowds agony feelings There are few persons who have not, at some period of their lives, amused themselves in retracing the steps by which particular conclusions of their own minds have been attained. The occupation is often full of interest and he who attempts it for the first time is astonished by the apparently illimitable distance and incoherence between the starting-point and the goal. Edgar Allan Poe distance goal mind Sleep, those little slices of death; Oh how I loathe them. Edgar Allan Poe All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream. Edgar Allan Poe I have great faith in fools; self-confidence, my friends call it. Edgar Allan Poe Never to suffer would never to have been blessed. Edgar Allan Poe They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. In their gray visions they obtain glimpses of eternity; and thrill; in waking; to find they have been upon the verge of the great secret. Edgar Allan Poe Take this kiss upon the brow and, in parting from you now, thus much let me avow -- 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. Edgar Allan Poe Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night. Edgar Allan Poe
