Top 10 Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active – not more happy – nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
— Edgar Allan Poe
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
— Edgar Allan Poe
I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
— Edgar Allan Poe
Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
— Edgar Allan Poe
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 which escape those who dream only by night.
— Edgar Allan Poe
I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.
— Edgar Allan Poe
We loved with a love that was more than love.
— Edgar Allan Poe
I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends will call it.
— Edgar Allan Poe
I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
— Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe Quotes on Death
Sleep, those little slices of death — how I loathe them.
— Edgar Allan Poe
To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!
— Edgar Allan Poe
The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
— Edgar Allan Poe
The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
— Edgar Allan Poe
Come! let the burial rite be read–the funeral song be sung!—An anthem for the queenliest dead that ever died so young—A dirge for her the doubly dead in that she died so young.
— Edgar Allan Poe
Thank Heaven! the crisis—The danger is past, And the lingering illness, Is over at last—And the fever called “Living,” Is conquered at last.
— Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe Quotes About Life
I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom.
— Edgar Allan Poe
The best things in life make you sweaty.
— Edgar Allan Poe
From childhood’s hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone.
— Edgar Allan Poe
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
— Edgar Allan Poe
Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
— Edgar Allan Poe
That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
— Edgar Allan Poe
The ninety and nine are with dreams, content, but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.
— Edgar Allan Poe
Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
— Edgar Allan Poe
Art is to look at not to criticize.
— Edgar Allan Poe
To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.
— Edgar Allan Poe
I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.
— Edgar Allan Poe
There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.
— Edgar Allan Poe
I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.
— Edgar Allan Poe
Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
— Edgar Allan Poe
And all I loved, I loved alone.
— Edgar Allan Poe
Deep in earth my love is lying/And I must weep alone.
— Edgar Allan Poe
Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence…
— Edgar Allan Poe
Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
― Edgar Allan Poe
Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.
— Edgar Allan Poe
It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
— Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe Quotes on Beauty, Dream and madness
It is a happiness to wonder; it is a happiness to dream.
— Edgar Allan Poe
The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.
— Edgar Allan Poe
There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.
— Edgar Allan Poe
It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
— Edgar Allan Poe
There is no exquisite beauty…without some strangeness in the proportion.
— Edgar Allan Poe
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
— Edgar Allan Poe
Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
— Edgar Allan Poe
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
— Edgar Allan Poe
With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
— Edgar Allan Poe
Even in the grave, all is not lost.
— Edgar Allan Poe
There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.
— Edgar Allan Poe
I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.
— Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe Quotes on Love
Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.
— Edgar Allan Poe
Deep in earth my love is lying. And I must weep alone.
— Edgar Allan Poe
We loved with a love that was more than love… With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven coveted her and me.
— Edgar Allan Poe
We loved with a love that was more than love
— Edgar Allan Poe
Deep in earth my love is lying And I must weep alone.
— Edgar Allan Poe
And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.
— Edgar Allan Poe
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence – whether much that is glorious– whether all that is profound– does not spring from disease of thought – from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect.
— Edgar Allan Poe
Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.
— Edgar Allan Poe
Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
— Edgar Allan Poe
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
— Edgar Allan Poe
To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.
— Edgar Allan Poe
I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.
— Edgar Allan Poe
Invisible things are the only realities.
— Edgar Allan Poe
The true genius shudders at incompleteness — imperfection — and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.
— Edgar Allan Poe
Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music without the idea is simply music; the idea without the music is prose from its very definitiveness.
— Edgar Allan Poe
They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
— Edgar Allan Poe
The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
— Edgar Allan Poe
Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it ‘the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.’ The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of ‘Artist.’
— Edgar Allan Poe
The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
— Edgar Allan Poe
That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.
— Edgar Allan Poe
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.
— Edgar Allan Poe
The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
— Edgar Allan Poe
There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.
— Edgar Allan Poe
Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
— Edgar Allan Poe
I need scarcely observe that a poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul. The value of the poem is in the ratio of this elevating excitement.
— Edgar Allan Poe
The generous Critic fann’d the Poet’s fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.
— Edgar Allan Poe
If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
— Edgar Allan Poe
Lord, help my poor soul.
— Edgar Allan Poe
I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.
— Edgar Allan Poe
I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.
— Edgar Allan Poe
In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.
— Edgar Allan Poe
A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this – that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made – not to understand – but to feel – as crime.
— Edgar Allan Poe
Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.
— Edgar Allan Poe
In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.
— Edgar Allan Poe
The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
— Edgar Allan Poe
There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.
— Edgar Allan Poe
It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.
— Edgar Allan Poe
Biography of Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19, 1809, in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. His parents were David Poe Jr. and Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins. Both of Poe’s parents were actors, and his father abandoned the family when Poe was just a year old. His mother died soon after, leaving Poe an orphan.
Poe was taken in by John and Frances Allan, a wealthy couple from Virginia. They raised him and gave him his middle name, Allan. Poe attended the University of Virginia but was forced to drop out due to financial difficulties. He then joined the army and served for two years before being discharged.
After leaving the army, Poe began his career as a writer. He worked for several literary magazines and published his first book of poems, “Tamerlane and Other Poems,” in 1827. In 1836, he married his cousin Virginia Clemm, who was only 13 years old at the time. They remained together until Virginia’s death from tuberculosis in 1847.
Poe is best known for his short stories and poems, which often had a dark and mysterious tone. Some of his most famous works include “The Raven,” “The Tell-Tale Heart,” and “The Fall of the House of Usher.” His writing has had a significant influence on the horror and mystery genres.
Poe struggled with alcoholism and financial difficulties throughout his life. He died on October 7, 1849, in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. The cause of his death is still unknown, but it is believed to have been related to his alcoholism. Poe was only 40 years old at the time of his death, but his legacy as one of the greatest American writers of all time continues to live on.
