Top 150 Best Edgar Allan Poe Quotes– Edgar Allan Poe wrote many short stories, poems and essays. His themes of death and the supernatural made him well known in his lifetime as one of America’s first great authors. Edgar Allan Poe continued to be admired by writers throughout his lifetime and into the present day. Poe was an eccentric who broke with society at large, yet endeared himself to many followers who latched onto his work. He is considered one of the greatest American authors and his works continue to be read almost a century after his death.
We have gathered a list of the top 150 best Edgar Allan Poe quotes for you to enjoy!
Top 100 Greatest Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“We loved with a love that was more than love.”
― Edgar Allen Poe
“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
― 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
“There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“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
“Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.”
― 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
“Sleep, those little slices of death — how I loathe them.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.”
― 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 Allen Poe
“All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“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,
“If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.”
― 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
“I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.”
― 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
“And all I loved, I loved alone.”
― Edgar Allen Poe
“Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“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.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“Invisible things are the only realities.”
― 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
“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
“The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind”
― Edgar Allen Poe
“Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.”
― Edgar Allen Poe
“That which you mistake for madness is but an over acuteness of the senses.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“It is a happiness to wonder; — it is a happiness to dream.”
― 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
“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…”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.”
[Letter to J. Beauchamp Jones, August 8, 1839]”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“Even in the grave, all is not lost.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“Yet mad I am not…and very surely do I not dream.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“Every moment of the night
Forever changing places
And they put out the star-light
With the breath from their pale faces”
― Edgar Allen Poe
“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. In their gray visions they obtain glimpses of eternity, and thrill, in waking, to find that they have been upon the verge of the great secret. In snatches, they learn something of the wisdom which is of good, and more of the mere knowledge which is of evil.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“Quoth the Raven, “Nevermore.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.”
― Edgar Allen Poe
“You are not wrong who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.”
― Edgar Allen Poe
“Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.”
― Edgar Allen 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
“To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“But our love was stronger by far than the love
Of those who were older than we
Of many far wiser than we
And neither the angels in heaven above,
Nor the demons down under the sea,
Can ever dissever my soul from the soul
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“Stupidity is a talent for misconception.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“True, nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am, but why will say that I am mad?! The disease had sharpened my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“And I fell violently on my face.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body; and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrilled every fibre of my frame.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“Leave my loneliness unbroken”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“Fill with mingled cream and amber,
I will drain that glass again.
Such hilarious visions clamber
Through the chamber of my brain —
Quaintest thoughts — queerest fancies
Come to life and fade away;
What care I how time advances?
I am drinking ale today.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.”
― Edgar Allen Poe
“Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore…”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore —
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
“’Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door —
Only this and nothing more.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“Art is to look at not to criticize.”
― Edgar Allen Poe
“In beauty of face no maiden ever equaled her. It was the radiance of an opium-dream – an airy and spirit-lifting vision more wildly divine than the fantasies which hovered about the slumbering souls of the daughters of Delos.”
― 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
“Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow-
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“Men have called me mad; but the question is not 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. They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who only dream by night. In their gray visions they obtain glimpses of eternity, and thrill, in waking, to find that they have been upon the verge of the great secret. In snatches, they learn something of the wisdom which is of good, and more of the mere knowledge which is of evil. They penetrate, however rudderless or compass less, into the vast ocean of the ‘light ineffable’.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.”
― Edgar Allen Poe
“Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made.”
― 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
“For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side
Of my darling- my darling- my life and my bride,
In the sepulcher there by the sea,
In her tomb by the sounding sea.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“A man’s grammar, like Caesar’s wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“Villains!’ I shrieked. ‘Dissemble no more! I admit the deed! Tear up the planks! Here, here! It is the beating of his hideous heart!”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls…”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“When, indeed, men speak of Beauty, they mean, precisely, not a quality, as is supposed, but an effect – they refer, in short, just to that intense and pure elevation of soul – not of intellect, or of heart.”
― 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
“You call it hope — that fire of fire!
It is but agony of desire.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“Lord help my poor soul.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“The rain came down upon my head – Unshelter’d. And the wind rendered me mad and deaf and blind.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“We gave the Future to the winds, and slumbered tranquilly in the Present, weaving the dull world around us into dreams.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“…that fitful strain of melancholy which will ever be found inseparable from the perfection of the beautiful.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“The idea of God, infinity, or spirit stands for the possible attempt at an impossible conception.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“But as, in ethics, evil is a consequence of good, so, in fact, out of joy is sorrow born. 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.”
― Edgar Alan Poe
“I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him.”
― Edgar Allen Poe
“Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best have gone to their eternal rest.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“Who has not, a hundred times, found himself committing a vile or silly action for no other reason than because he knows he should not? Have we not a perpetual inclination, in the teeth of our best judgement, to violate that which is Law, merely because we understand it to be such?”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“From childhood’s hour I have not been
As others were; I have not seen
As others saw; I could not bring
My passions from a common spring.
From the same source I have not taken
My sorrow; I could not awaken
My heart to joy at the same tone;
And all I loved, I loved alone.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on. (Montresor)”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“It is more than probable that I am not understood; but I fear, indeed, that it is in no manner possible to convey to the mind of the merely general reader, an adequate idea of that nervous intensity of interest with which, in my case, the powers of meditation (not to speak technically) busied and buried themselves, in the contemplation of even the most ordinary objects of the universe.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“I was a child and she was a child,
In this kingdom by the sea;
But we loved with a love that was more than love-
I and my Annabel Lee;
With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven
Coveted her and me.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day; or the agonies which are have their origins in ecstasies which might have been. ”
― edgar allan poe
“For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And the stars never rise but i feel the bright eyes
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“Blood was its Avatar and its seal.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“By a route obscure and lonely
Haunted by ill angels only,
Where an eidolon, named NIGHT,
On a black throne reigns upright,
I have reached these lands but newly
From an ultimate dim Thule —
From a wild, weird clime that lieth, sublime,
Out of SPACE, out of TIME.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country; and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher. I know not how it was–but, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit. I say insufferable; for the feeling was unrelieved by any of that half-pleasurable, because poetic, sentiment, with which the mind usually receives even the sternest natural images of the desolate or terrible. I looked upon the scene before me–upon the mere house, and the simple landscape features of the domain–upon the bleak walls–upon the vacant eye-like windows–upon a few rank sedges–and upon a few white trunks of decayed trees–with an utter depression of soul which I can compare to no earthly sensation more properly than to the after-dream of the reveller upon opium–the bitter lapse into everyday life–the hideous dropping off of the veil. 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.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“From childhood’s hour I have not been
As others were – I have not seen
As others saw – I could not bring
My passions from a common spring -”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion, even by the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made.”
― 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.”
― Edgar Allen 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 Allen Poe
“That is another of your odd notions,” said the Prefect, who had a fashion of calling every thing “odd” that was beyond his comprehension, and thus lived amid an absolute legion of “oddities.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor, Shall be lifted — Nevermore!”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“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.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“…the agony of my soul found vent in one loud, long and final scream of despair.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“…And, all at once, the moon arouse through the thin ghastly mist, And was crimson in color… And they lynx which dwelleth forever in the tomb, came out therefrom. And lay down at the feet of the demon. And looked at him steadily in the face.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door,
That I scarce was sure I heard you”— here I opened wide the door; —
Darkness there, and nothing more.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow.”
― Edgar Allen Poe 113
“True, nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am, but why will say that I am mad?! The disease had sharpened my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“And I fell violently on my face.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body; and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrilled every fibre of my frame.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“Leave my loneliness unbroken”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“Fill with mingled cream and amber,
I will drain that glass again.
Such hilarious visions clamber
Through the chamber of my brain —
Quaintest thoughts — queerest fancies
Come to life and fade away;
What care I how time advances?
I am drinking ale today.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.”
― Edgar Allen Poe
“Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore…”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore —
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
“’Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door —
Only this and nothing more.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“Art is to look at not to criticize.”
― Edgar Allen Poe
“In beauty of face no maiden ever equaled her. It was the radiance of an opium-dream – an airy and spirit-lifting vision more wildly divine than the fantasies which hovered about the slumbering souls of the daughters of Delos.”
― 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
“Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow-
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“Men have called me mad; but the question is not 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. They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who only dream by night. In their gray visions they obtain glimpses of eternity, and thrill, in waking, to find that they have been upon the verge of the great secret. In snatches, they learn something of the wisdom which is of good, and more of the mere knowledge which is of evil. They penetrate, however rudderless or compass less, into the vast ocean of the ‘light ineffable’.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.”
― Edgar Allen Poe
“Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made.”
― 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
“For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side
Of my darling- my darling- my life and my bride,
In the sepulcher there by the sea,
In her tomb by the sounding sea.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“A man’s grammar, like Caesar’s wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“Villains!’ I shrieked. ‘Dissemble no more! I admit the deed! Tear up the planks! Here, here! It is the beating of his hideous heart!”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls…”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“When, indeed, men speak of Beauty, they mean, precisely, not a quality, as is supposed, but an effect – they refer, in short, just to that intense and pure elevation of soul – not of intellect, or of heart.”
― 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
“You call it hope — that fire of fire!
It is but agony of desire.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“Lord help my poor soul.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“The rain came down upon my head – Unsheltered. And the wind rendered me mad and deaf and blind.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“We gave the Future to the winds, and slumbered tranquilly in the Present, weaving the dull world around us into dreams.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“…that fitful strain of melancholy which will ever be found inseparable from the perfection of the beautiful.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“Science! true daughter of Old Time thou art!
Who alterest all things with thy peering eyes.
Why preyest thou thus upon the poet’s heart,
Vulture, whose wings are dull realities?
How should he love thee? or how deem thee wise?
Who wouldst not leave him in his wandering
To seek for treasure in the jewelled skies,
Albeit he soared with an undaunted wing?
Hast thou not dragged Diana from her car?
And driven the Hamadryad from the wood
To seek a shelter in some happier star?
Hast thou not torn the Naiad from her flood,
The Elfin from the green grass, and from me
The summer dream beneath the tamarind tree?”
― Edgar Allen Poe
“To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“the truth is, I am heartily sick of this life & of the nineteenth century in general. (I am convinced that every thing is going wrong.)”
― Edgar Allen Poe
“THE thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge. You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that gave utterance to a threat. At length I would be avenged; this was a point definitely, settled –but the very definitiveness with which it was resolved precluded the idea of risk. I must not only punish but punish with impunity. A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong. ”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“Twas noontide of summer,
And mid-time of night;
And stars, in their orbits,
Shone pale, thro’ the light
Of the brighter, cold moon,
‘Mid planets her slaves,
Herself in the Heavens,
Her beam on the waves.
I gazed awhile
On her cold smile;
Too cold–too cold for me-
There pass’d, as a shroud,
A fleecy cloud,
And I turned away to thee,
Proud Evening Star,
In thy glory afar,
And dearer thy beam shall be;
For joy to my heart
Is the proud part
Thou bearest in Heaven at night,
And more I admire
Thy distant fire,
Than that colder, lowly light.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“And now have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the senses?”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain; but once conceived, it haunted me day and night.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“I heed not that my earthly lot
Hath – little of Earth in it –
That years of love have been forgot
In the hatred of a minute: –
I mourn not that the desolate
Are happier, sweet, than I,
But that you sorrow for my fate
Who am a passer by.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“To be thoroughly conversant with Man’s heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of Despair”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“We had always dwelled together, beneath a tropical sun, in the Valley of the Many Colored Grass.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“Marking a book is literally an experience of your differences or agreements with the author. It is the highest respect you can pay him.”
― Edgar Allen Poe
“Yes,” I said, “for the love of God!”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“Aquellos que sueñan de día comprenden muchas cosas que escapan a los que sueñan solo de noche”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“Let me glimpse inside your velvet bones.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“O, Times! O, Manners! It is my opinion
That you are changing sadly your dominion
I mean the reign of manners hath long ceased,
For men have none at all, or bad at least;
And as for times, altho’ ’tis said by many
The “good old times” were far the worst of any,
Of which sound Doctrine I believe each tittle
Yet still I think these worst a little.I’ve been a thinking -isn’t that the phrase?-
I like your Yankee words and Yankee ways –
I’ve been a thinking, whether it were best
To Take things seriously, Or all in jest”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“For my own part, I have never had a thought which I could not set down in words, with even more distinctness than that with which I conceived it.”
― Edgar Allen Poe
“Once upon a midnight dreary”
― Edgar Allen Poe
“Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing,
Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortals ever dared to dream before;
But the silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token,
And the only word there spoken was the whispered word, “Lenore?”
This I whispered, and an echo murmured back the word, “Lenore!” —
Merely this, and nothing more”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting
On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door;
And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon’s that is dreaming,
And the lamp-light o’er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor:
And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor
Shall be lifted — nevermore!”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“We have a task before us which must be speedily performed. We know that it will be ruinous to make delay. The most important crisis of our life calls, trumpet-tongued, for immediate energy and action. We glow, we are consumed with eagerness to commence the work, with the anticipation of whose glorious result our whole souls are on fire. It must, it shall be undertaken to-day, and yet we put it off until to-morrow; and why? There is no answer, except that we feel perverse, using the word with no comprehension of the principle. To-morrow arrives, and with it a more impatient anxiety to do our duty, but with this very increase of anxiety arrives, also, a nameless, a positively fearful, because unfathomable, craving for delay. This craving gathers strength as the moments fly. The last hour for action is at hand. We tremble with the violence of the conflict within us, — of the definite with the indefinite — of the substance with the shadow. But, if the contest have proceeded thus far, it is the shadow which prevails, — we struggle in vain. The clock strikes, and is the knell of our welfare. At the same time, it is the chanticleer-note to the ghost that has so long overawed us. It flies — it disappears — we are free. The old energy returns. We will labor now. Alas, it is too late!”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“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.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“TRUE! – nervous – very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses – not destroyed – not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute. I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell. How, then, am I mad? Hearken! and observe how healthily – how calmly I can tell you the whole story.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe, and forget this lost Lenore!”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“And so being young
and dipped in folly,
I fell in love
with melancholy.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“There is no passion in nature so demoniacally impatient, as that of him who, shuddering upon the edge of a precipice, thus meditates a Plunge.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“…A change fell upon all things. Strange brilliant flowers, star-shaped, burst out upon the trees where no flowers had been before. The tints of the green carpet deepened; and when, one by one, the white daisies shrank away, there sprang up, in place of them, ten by ten of the ruby-red asphodel. And life arose in our paths; for the tall flamingo hitherto unseen, with all gay glowing birds, flaunted his scarlet plumage before us. The golden and silver fish haunted the river…”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“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.”
― Edgar Allen Poe
Conclusion
There you have it! The top best 100 Edgar Allan Poe’s quotes. This list has been gathered for you to explore the amazing work of one of the greatest American authors in history.
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In his own work, he demonstrated a brilliant command of language and technique as well as an inspired and original imagination. Poe’s poetry and short stories greatly influenced the French Symbolists of the late 19th century, who in turn altered the direction of modern literature.
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