Edgar allen Poe was a dreamer...

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.



I stand amid the roar

Of a surf-tormented shore,

And I hold within my hand

Grains of the golden sand--

How few! yet how they creep

Through my fingers to the deep,

While I weep--while I weep!

O God! can I not grasp

Them with a tighter clasp?

O God! can I not save

One from the pitiless wave?

Is all that we see or seem

But a dream within a dream?

That's one of the more famous poems I think by Edgar Allen Poe. Shoot, I even heard that quote in a jungle track by Aquasky, years ago: "...all that we see or seem, is but a dream, within a dream". Man, I loved that track... If I find it online I'll post a link to it.

Indeed, a lot of his poetry is about dreaming. If you read through his poems, you'll notice.

:bowdown: Poe rocks. Some more famous quotes -

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

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

Many others.

Wait a second.. You guys don't know the secret to most of Edgar Allen Poe's stories?

He drank some alchol, smoked some opium, slept for a couple of hours, woke up, and wrote his dream. From his dream he created his story.

I love Poe's poems. They have such an eerie, dreamlike ring to them, especially the Raven.