Quotes By Edgar Allan Poe

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

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

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

Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

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?

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

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

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

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

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.

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.'

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.

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.

Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.

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

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

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

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.

We loved with a love that was more than love.

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.