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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The pioneers and missionaries of religion have been the real cause of more trouble and war than all other classes of mankind.

Edgar Allan Poe

The best things in life make you sweaty.

Edgar Allan 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

And all I loved, I loved alone.

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 m...

Edgar Allan Poe

I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.

Edgar Allan Poe

When I was young and filled with folly, I fell in love with melancholy

Edgar Allan Poe

Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness.

Edgar Allan Poe

I have before suggested that a genuine blackguard is never without a pocket-handkerchief.

Edgar Allan Poe

It all depends on the robber's knowledge of the loser's knowledge of the robber. - Daupin

Edgar Allan Poe

With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.

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 Allan Poe

All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.

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, ...

Edgar Allan Poe

To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.

Edgar Allan Poe

Luchesi cannot tell amontillado from a sherry

Edgar Allan Poe

A man's grammar, like Caesar's wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.

Edgar Allan Poe

Depend upon it, after all, Thomas, Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man. For my own part, there is no seducing me from the path.

Edgar Allan Poe

A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.

Edgar Allan Poe

I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.

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