Edgar Allan Poe Quotes

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

"Words have no power to impress the mind with the exquisite horror of their reality"

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

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

"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream."

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

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

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

"Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words."

"Stupidity is a talent for misconception."

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

"There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm"

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

"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.'"

"I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat."

"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."

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

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

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

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

"Men of genius are far more abundant than is supposed. In fact, to appreciate thoroughly the work of what we call genius, is to possess all the genius by which the work was produced."

"All that we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream"

"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."

"To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness."

"Yes, I now feel that it was then on that evening of sweet dreams- that the very first dawn of human love burst upon the icy night of my spirit. Since that period I have never seen nor heard your name without a shiver half of delight, half of anxiety."

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

"Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance."

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

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

"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."

"I never can hear a crowd of people singing and gesticulating, all together, at an Italian opera, without fancying myself at Athens, listening to that particular tragedy, by Sophocles, in which he introduces a full chorus of turkeys, who set about bewailing the death of Meleager."

"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 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"

"All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry"

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

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

"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."

"A gentleman with a pug nose is a contradiction in terms."

"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."

"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night."

"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 mist"

"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."

"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"

"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."

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

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

"The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all these more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind."

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

"To be thoroughly conversant with a man's heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of despair."

"Believe me, there exists no such dilemma as that in which a gentleman is placed when he is forced to reply to a blackguard."

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