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Edgar Allan Poe Quotes

Total quotes: 67
“And so being young and dipped in folly, I fell in love with melancholy.”
— Edgar Allan Poe, The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe
Tagged: young, Love, Poetic, Melancholy
“They 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…”
— Edgar Allan Poe, Eleonora
Tagged: Dream, Dreaming, Knowledge, Intellect, daydream
“A poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul.”
— Edgar Allan Poe, Essays and Reviews
Tagged: poem, Poetry, poetry is human existence, Feelings, poetry touches soul
“It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain; but once conceived, it haunted me day and night.”
— Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings
Tagged: idea, Ideas, Mind, Brain, Creativity, haunting idea, result of an idea
“There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.”
— Edgar Allan Poe, Ligeia
Tagged: beauty, exquisite, Imperfections, appreciation of beauty, proportion, Inspirational, Encouragement, asymmetry
“If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.”
— Edgar Allan Poe, A quote by Egdar Allan Poe
Tagged: Poetry, Poetic, appreciation of beauty, Literature
“I grew, day by day, more moody, more irritable, more regardless of the feelings of others.”
— Edgar Allan Poe, The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe: An Annotated Edition
Tagged: emotions, Personality change, Moody, Mood Swings
“Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.’”
— Edgar Allan Poe, Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales and Poems
Tagged: The Raven, Darkness, Eerie, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.”
— Edgar Allan Poe, A Dream Within a Dream
Tagged: Reality, Dream, Dreaming, Living, Life, poem, Poetry
“I wasn’t insane until someone touched my heart.”
— Edgar Allan Poe, A quote by Edgar Allan Poe
Tagged: Falling In Love, Love and Affection
“...for love like mine can never be gotten over.”
— Edgar Allan Poe, The Portable Edgar Allan Poe
Tagged: Love, Self-Concept, Self-Absorbed, Self-Love
“We loved with a love that was more than love.”
— Edgar Allan Poe, Annabel Lee
Tagged: Love, Cute
“Let me glimpse inside your velvet bones.”
— Edgar Allan Poe, The Collected Letters of Edgar Allan Poe
Tagged: romance, Love
“I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.”
— Edgar Allan Poe, Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales and Poems
Tagged: Introvert, Silence, Alone, Solitude
“years of love have been forgot

In the hatred of a minute”
— Edgar Allan Poe, To - -
Tagged: Edgar Allan Poe, Scary Stories, short stories, Poems
“"Prophet!" said I, "thing of evil! — prophet still, if bird or devil!"”
— Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven
“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, Ligeia
Tagged: Edgar Allan Poe, short stories, Scary Literature, Poems
“I grew, day by day, more moody, more irritable, more regardless of the feelings of others. I suffered myself to use intemperate language to my wife. At length, I even offered her personal violence.”
— Edgar Allan Poe, The Black Cat
Tagged: Edgar Allan Poe, short stories, Scary Stories, Poems
“Perched upon a bust of Pallas, just above my chamber door,—
Perched, and sat, and nothing more.”
— Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven
“"Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore —
Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!"
Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore."”
— Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven
“"Doubtless," said I, "what it utters is its only stock and store,
Caught from some unhappy master whom unmerciful Disaster
Followed fast and followed faster till his songs one burden bore.”
— Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven
“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, The Black Cat
“They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
— Edgar Allan Poe, Eleonora
Tagged: Edgar Allan Poe, short stories, Poems, Scary Stories
“I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him.”
— Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart
Tagged: Edgar Allan Poe, short stories, Poems, Scary Stories, Horror
“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?”
— Edgar Allan Poe, A Dream Within a Dream
Tagged: Edgar Allan Poe, Poetry, Scary Stories, short stories
“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, Edgar Allan Poe Letter: July 2, 1844
Tagged: Edgar Allan Poe, short stories, Scary Stories, Poems, Letters, Progress
“TRUE! — nervous — very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?”
— Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart
“Sorrow for the lost Lenore —
For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore —
Nameless here for evermore.”
— Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven
“And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting
On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door.”
— Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven
“"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, The Tell-Tale Heart
“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.”
— Edgar Allan Poe, The Landscape Garden
Tagged: Edgar Allan Poe, short stories, Scary Stories, Poems
“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 Raven
Tagged: Edgar Allan Poe, short stories, Scary Stories, Poems, Horror
“There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion. 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 Masque Of The Red Death
Tagged: Edgar Allan Poe, short stories, Scary Stories, Poems
“And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor
Shall be lifted — nevermore!”
— Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven
“And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain
Thrilled me — filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before.”
— Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven
“Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December;
And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.”
— Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven
“In her sepulcher there by the sea —
In her tomb by the sounding sea.”
— Edgar Allan Poe, Annabel Lee
“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, The Masque Of Red Death
Tagged: Apocalypse, Horror Stories
“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 Raven
“Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.”
— Edgar Allan Poe, The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether
Tagged: Philosophy, Life, Belief, Advice
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