Quotes by Edgar Allan Poe

About Edgar Allan Poe:

Edgar Allan Poe is generally considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre. He is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction. He was the first well-known American writer to try to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career.
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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

Edgar Allan Poe

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

Edgar Allan Poe

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

Edgar Allan Poe

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

Edgar Allan Poe

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

Edgar Allan Poe

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.

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

The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.

Edgar Allan Poe

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

Edgar Allan Poe

The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.

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,...

Edgar Allan Poe

Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.

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 ...

Edgar Allan Poe

From childhood's hour I have not been As others were; I have not seen As others saw

Edgar Allan Poe

There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.

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

Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.

Edgar Allan Poe

Ceux qui revent eveilles ont conscience de 1000 choses qui echapent a ceux qui ne revent qu'endormis. The one who has day dream are aware of 1000 things that the one who dreams only when he sleeps will never understand. (it sounds better in french, I...

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Deep in earth my love is lying And I must weep alone.

Edgar Allan Poe

The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls...

Edgar Allan Poe

And thus, as a closer and still closer intimacy admitted me more unreservedly into recesses if his spirit, the more bitterly did I perceive the futility of all attempt at cheering a mind from which darkness, as if an inherent positive quality, poured...

Edgar Allan Poe

Author Bio

  • NameEdgar Allan Poe
  • DescriptionAmerican author, poet, editor and literary critic
  • AliasesPoe
  • BornJanuary 19, 1809
  • DiedOctober 7, 1849
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPoet; Writer; Essayist; Literary Critic