Quotes By Edgar Allan Poe

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.

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

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

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.

We loved with a love that was more than love.

There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.

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