Success Quote by Edgar Allan Poe

Poe elevates the daydream as an instrument of knowledge. Day dreams happen under the light of awareness; they are guided excursions rather than compulsions. In them, imagination cooperates with reason, so the dreamer can notice faint correspondences, symbols, and moods that slip past the utilitarian eye. Night dreams, by contrast, seize us; their fragments often dissolve on waking. The daydreamer remembers, shapes, and tests impressions, and so becomes cognizant of nuances others overlook.

The line appears in Eleonora (1841), Poe's tale of a paradisal valley and a pledge of love that survives death. The narrator is a visionary whose perception saturates the landscape with meaning. His daytime reveries do not cancel reality; they refract it, intensifying colors, time, and conscience. When he later falls in love again, a voice from beyond grants him absolution, as if imagination had opened a lawful passage between fidelity and renewal. The sentence functions as a brief manifesto within the story: the creative mind can apprehend truths inaccessible to mere wakefulness or to the involuntary theater of sleep.

Yet Poe's Romantic elevation of sensibility is tinged with danger. To know too much through reverie can isolate the knower, for such knowledge resists common language and may look like mania. Across Poe's work, heightened perception often walks the edge of obsession. Still, the claim is not an escape into fantasy; it is a call for disciplined reverie, a wakeful dreaming that sharpens attention. By training the imagination to work in daylight, one becomes alert to the hidden textures of experience, the echoes, forebodings, and intimations that ordinary habit screens from view.