“Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.”
"The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether" (1845)
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“Man is an animal that diddles, and there is no animal that diddles but man.”
" Diddling: Considered As One Of The Exact Sciences http://www.classicreader.com/read.php/sid.6/bookid.1390/"; first published as "Raising the Wind" in Saturday Courier (1843-10-14).
“Beauty is the sole legitimate province of the poem.”
"The Philosophy of Composition" (published 1846).
“All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.”
"A Dream Within a Dream" (1849).
Context: 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.
“From childhood's hour I have not been
As others were — I have not seen
As others saw —”
" Alone http://gothlupin.tripod.com/valone.html", l. 1-8 (written 1829, published 1875).
Context: 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
“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
Letter http://www.eapoe.org/works/letters/p4801040.htm to George W. Eveleth, Jan. 4, 1848.