Edgar Allan Poe: Quotes about dreams

Edgar Allan Poe was American author, poet, editor and literary critic. Explore interesting quotes on dreams.
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“All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.”

Edgar Allan Poe book 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.

Romantic , Dreams

“You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;”

Edgar Allan Poe book 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.

Dreams

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

Edgar Allan Poe

" Eleonora http://www.classicreader.com/read.php/sid.6/bookid.9/" (1841).

Deep , Good Night , Dreams , Night

“A dark unfathom'd tide
Of interminable pride —
A mystery, and a dream,
Should my early life seem.”

Edgar Allan Poe book Tamerlane and Other Poems

" Imitation http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/poe/17481", Tamerlane and Other Poems (1827).

Life , Dreams

“Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing,
Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.”

Edgar Allan Poe The Raven

Stanza 5.
The Raven (1844)

Fear , Dreams

“And all my days are trances,
And all my nightly dreams
Are where thy grey eye glances,
And where thy footstep gleams —
In what ethereal dances,
By what eternal streams.”

Edgar Allan Poe

"To One In Paradise", st. 4; variants of this verse read "where thy dark eye glances".

Dreams , Dance

“Hast thou not torn the Naiad from her flood,
The Elfin from the green grass, and from me
The summer dream beneath the tamarind tree?”

Edgar Allan Poe

" Sonnet. To Science http://library.thinkquest.org/11840/Poe/science.html", l. 12-14 (1829).

Dreams , Tree , Grass , Summer

“For the most wild, yet most homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief. Mad indeed would I be to expect it, in a case where my very senses reject their own evidence. Yet, mad am I not — and very surely do I not dream. But to-morrow I die, and to-day I would unburthen my soul.”

Edgar Allan Poe book The Black Cat

The Black Cat (1843)

Dreams , Home , Soul , Sense

“O God! Can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?”

Edgar Allan Poe

"A Dream Within A Dream" (1849).

God , Dreams