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"41 Edgar Allan Poe Quotes & Sayings

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January 19, 1809 - October 7, 1849 | Writer | Poet |

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.

Tone Alone Love Awaken
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We loved with a love that was more than love.

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

Before Dared Darkness Deep
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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
Became Horrible Insane Intervals
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All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
Dream See Seem Within
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They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

Cognizant Day Dream Escape
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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

Misconception A Stupidity Talent
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I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.

Absolute Danger Effect Except
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

Evolved Fear Fraud Friend
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The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.

Found May Possibly Verse
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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.

Bent Come Content Dreams
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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.

Deserves Excitement Excites Need
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Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.

Dreary Midnight Once Weak
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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.
Beauty Brief Creation Define
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The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

Everything Genius Saying Should
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I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

Call Faith Fools Friends
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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.

Dream Existence Fancy Future
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Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

Because Chiefly Ever Expecting
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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.

Active Effect Exertion Faith
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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

Beauty Development Excites Invariably
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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.

Brute Directly Fidelity Frequent
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That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

Afraid Brave Coward Either
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In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.

Absolutely Bold Criticism Foe
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The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.

An Imagination Led Mob
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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

Been Me Passion Poetry
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To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.

Attain Great Great Man Greatness
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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.

Case Cases Considered Few
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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.

Beautiful Contemplation Derived Intense
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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.

About Against Argument Charity
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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

Exquisite Horror Impress Mind
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The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.
Admire Critic Fire Generous
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Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

Intelligence Madness Science Sublimity
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If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.

Anything Forget Make Note
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Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.

Able Been Dislike Has Been
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It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.

General Most Nature Particular
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It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.

Always Analytic Fact Found
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I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.

Above Am Atrocity Between
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The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
Beautiful Beautiful Woman Death Most
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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.

Always Arise Experience Irrelevant
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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?

Begins Best Boundaries Death
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Lord, help my poor soul.

Help Lord Poor Soul
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Edgar Allan Poe Quotes & Sayings