Edgar Allan Poe Quotes: Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 Boston, USA – October 7, 1849, Baltimore, USA) was an American poet, short story writer, editor, and literary critic.
Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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‘“The object, truth, or the satisfaction of the intellect, and the object, Passion, or the excitement of the heart, are, although attainable, to a certain extent, in poetry, far more readily attainable in prose.” — The Philosophy of Composition’
‘“There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.” —The man of the crowd’,
‘”False hope is nicer than no hope at all.”‘
‘“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.” — Eleonora’
‘”If you run out of ideas follow the road; you will get there””‘
‘“The true genius shudders at incompleteness — imperfection — and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.” — Marginalia’
‘”If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.” ‘
‘“Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.” — The Raven’
‘”Never to suffer would have been never to have been blessed.” -Edgar Allan Poe’
‘“Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.” — Mesmeric Revelation’
‘”All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.” -Edgar Allan Poe’
‘“Thrilled me — filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before.” — The Raven’
‘”A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.” -Edgar Allan Poe’
‘“No pictorial or sculptural combinations of points of human loveliness, do more than approach the living and breathing human beauty as it gladdens our daily path.” — The Landscape Garden’
‘”Those who gossip with you will gossip about you.” -Edgar Allan Poe’
‘“There are few persons who have not, at some period of their lives, amused themselves in retracing the steps by which particular conclusions of their own minds have been attained.” — The Murders in the Rue Morgue’
‘”Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge” -Edgar Allan Poe’
‘“It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.” — The Rationale of Verse’
‘”Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute”‘
‘“That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.” — Marginalia’
‘”I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.” -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.” — The Black Cat’
‘”The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.” -Edgar Allan Poe’
‘“Yet mad I am not… and very surely do I not dream.” — The Black Cat’
‘”There is no beauty without some strangeness” -Edgar Allan Poe’
‘“I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.” — The Poetic Principle’
‘”The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.” -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.” — Marginalia’
‘”Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.” -Edgar Allan Poe ‘
‘“There came forth in reply only a jingling of the bells. My heart grew sick–on account of the dampness of the catacombs.” — The Cask of Amontillado’
‘“I have before suggested that a genuine blackguard is never without a pocket handkerchief.” — Tales of Terror and Detection’
‘”I call to mind flatness and dampness, and then all is madness – the madness of a memory which busies itself among forbidden things.” — The Pit and the Pendulum’
‘“There was an iciness, a sinking, a sickening of the heart – an unredeemed dreariness of thought which no goading of the imagination could torture into aught of the sublime” — The Fall of the House of Usher’
‘“It is evident that we are hurrying onward to some exciting knowledge — some never-to-be-imparted secret, whose attainment is destruction.” — Tales of Mystery and Imagination’
‘“If we cannot comprehend God in his visible works, how then in his inconceivable thoughts, that call the works into being?” — The Imp of the Perverse’
‘“If you are ever drowned or hung, be sure and make a note of your sensations.” -Edgar Allan Poe’,
‘“The idea of God, infinity, or spirit stands for the possible attempt at an impossible conception.” — Eureka: A Prose Poem’
‘“Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.” — The Raven’
‘“O, human love! thou spirit given, on Earth, of all we hope in Heaven!” — Tamerlane’
‘“Be nothing which thou art not.” — To Frances S. Osgood’
‘“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.” — For Annie’
‘“A million candles have burned themselves out. Still, I read on.” — The Cask of Amontillado’,
‘“In reading some books we occupy ourselves chiefly with the thoughts of the author; in perusing others, exclusively with our own.” — Marginalia’
‘“Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.”’
‘”Back into the chamber turning, all my soul within me burning.” — The Raven’
‘“Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.” — The Philosophy of Composition’
‘“That is another of your odd notions,” said the Prefect, who had a fashion of calling everything “odd” that was beyond his comprehension, and thus lived amid an absolute legion of “oddities.” — The Purloined Letter’
‘“The customs of the world are so many conventional follies.” — The Spectacles’
‘“The man wore motley. He had on a tight-fitting parti-striped dress, and his head was surmounted by the conical cap and bells.” — The Cask of Amontillado’
‘“Beauty is the sole legitimate province of the poem.” — The Philosophy of Composition’
‘“In the deepest slumber-no! In delirium-no! In a swoon-no! In death-no! even in the grave all is not lost.” — The Pit and the Pendulum’
‘“I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.” — The Fall of the House of Usher’
‘“And then there stole into my fancy, like a rich musical note, the thought of what sweet rest there must be in the grave.” — The Pit and the Pendulum’
‘“Invisible things are the only realities.” — Loss of breath’
‘“For eyes we have no models in the remotely antique.” — Ligeia’
‘“I have great faith in fools – self-confidence my friends will call it.” — Marginalia’
‘“The realities of the world affected me as visions, and as visions only, while the wild ideas of the land of dreams became, in turn,—not the material of my every-day existence–but in very deed that existence utterly and solely in itself.” — Berenice’
‘“There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.” — Ligeia’
‘“And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor, Shall be lifted — Nevermore!” — The Raven’
‘“Misery is manifold. The wretchedness of earth is multiform.” — Berenice’
‘“Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best have gone to their eternal rest.” — The City in the Sea’
‘”Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.” — The Mystery of Marie Rogêt’
‘”Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore.” — The Raven’
‘“Whether people grow fat by joking, or whether there is something in fat itself which predisposes to a joke, I have never been quite able to determine” — Hop-Frog’
‘“A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.”’
‘“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.” — Letter to Mr. B’
‘“In our endeavors to recall to memory something long forgotten, we often find ourselves upon the very verge of remembrance, without being able, in the end, to remember.” — Ligeia’
‘“I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.” — Letter to J. Beauchamp Jones’
‘”“Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of today, or the agonies which are have their origin in the ecstasies which might have been.” — Berenice’
‘“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?” — The Premature Burial’
‘“It was a freak of fancy in my friend… to be enamored of the night for her own sake; and into this bizarrerie, as into all his others, I quietly fell; giving myself up to his wild whims with a perfect abandon.” — The Murders in the Rue Morgue’
‘“Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.” — The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket’
‘“The most natural, and, consequently, the truest and most intense of the human affections are those which arise in the heart as if by electric sympathy.” — The Spectacles’
‘“A feeling, for which I have no name, has taken possession of my soul.” — Ms. Found in a Bottle’
‘“A poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul.” — The Poetic Principle’,
‘“It would be mockery to call such dreariness heaven at all.” — The doomed city’
‘“I am actuated by an ambition which I believe to be an honourable one — the ambition of serving the great cause of truth, while endeavouring to forward the literature of the country.” — Letter to Washington Poe’
‘“For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams.” — Annabel Lee’
‘“There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.” — The Masque of the Red Death’
‘“There is no beauty without some strangeness.” — Ligeia’
‘“You will observe that the stories told are all about money-seekers, not about money-finders.” — The Gold Bug’
‘“Because it was my crime to have no one on Earth who cared for me, or loved me.” — Letter to John Allan’
‘“Who has not, a hundred times, found himself committing a vile or a silly action for no other reason than because he knows he should not?” — The Balck Cat’
‘“To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!” — The Assignation’
‘“It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain; but once conceived, it haunted me day and night.” — The Tell-Tale Heart’
‘“I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.” — The Fall of the House of Usher’
‘“I continued, as was my wont, to smile in his face, and he did not perceive that my smile now was at the thought of his immolation.” — The Cask of Amontillado’
‘“The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.” — The Philosophy of Composition’
‘“I am walking like a bewitched corpse, with the certainty of being eaten by the infinite, of being annulled by the only existing Absurd.” — Selected letters’
‘“Reaching out to her is like drinking from a memory.”’
‘“My heart beat calmly as that of one who slumbers in innocence.”― The Black Cat’
‘“A judge at common law may be an ordinary man; a good judge of a carpet must be a genius.” — The Philosophy of Furniture’
‘“Melancholy is… the most legitimate of all the poetical tones.” — The Philosophy of Composition’,
‘“We want characters – characters man – something novel – out of the way. We are wearied with everlasting sameness. Come drink! the wine will brighten your wits.”’
‘“It is a happiness to wonder; — it is a happiness to dream.” — Morella’
‘“For all we live to know is known.” — Tamerlane’
‘“We loved with a love that was more than love.” — The Tell-Tale Heart’
‘“It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.” — The Murders in the Rue Morgue’
‘“I do believe God gave me a spark of genius, but he quenched it in misery.”’
‘“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.”― The Poetic Principle’
‘“We should bear in mind that, in general, it is the object of our newspapers rather to create a sensation – to make a point – than to further the cause of truth.” — The Mystery of Marie Roget’
‘“He who pleases is of more importance to his fellow man than he who instructs.”’
‘“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.” — Letter to Sarah H. Whitman’
‘“The depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found.” — The Murders in the Rue Morgue’
‘“Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.”’
‘“Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.” — Berenice’
‘“That which you mistake for madness is but an over acuteness of the senses” — The Tell-Tale Heart’,
‘“Decorum – that bug-bear which deters so many from bliss until the opportunity for bliss has forever gone by.” — The Spectacles’
‘“If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.” — Marginalia’
‘“Love like mine can never be gotten over.” — Letter to Maria Clemm’
‘“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.” — Letter to George Washington Eveleth’
‘“Because I feel that, in the Heavens above, The angels, whispering to one another, Can find, among their burning terms of love, None so devotional as that of ‘Mother.’” — My Mother’
‘“Leave my loneliness unbroken!—quit the bust above my door!” — The Raven’
‘“There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction.” — The Premature Burial’
‘“And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.” — Romance’
‘“It is with literature as with law or empire – an established name is an estate in tenure, or a throne in possession.” — Letter to Mr. B’
‘”Believe nothing you hear and only one half that you see.” — The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether’
‘“Even in the grave, all is not lost.” — The Pit and the Pendulum’
‘“To observe attentively is to remember distinctly.” — The Murders in the Rue Morgue’
‘“Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded.” — The Tell-Tale Heart’
‘“All that we see or seem, Is but a dream within a dream.” — A Dream Within a Dream’
‘“That which you mistake for madness is but an over acuteness of the senses.” — The Tell-Tale Heart’,
‘“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.” — Eleonora ‘
‘“I have no faith in human perfectibility. 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.” — Letter to James Russell Lowell’
‘“Actually, I do have doubts, all the time. Any thinking person does. There are so many sides to every question.” — The Raven ‘
‘“A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser.” — The Cask of Amontillado’
‘“I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.”’