Edgar Allan Poe Quotes

"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?"

"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."

"Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears."

"We loved with a love that was more than love."

"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity."

"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."

"They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."

"Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence."

"Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality."

"Stupidity is a talent for misconception."

"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary."

"I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity."

"I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it."

"The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world."

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

"Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them."

"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."

"Lord, help my poor soul."

"With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion."

"I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty."

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

"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.'"

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

"The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be."

"I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror."

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

"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."

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

"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."