Edgar Allan Poe quotes

Edgar Allan Poe, the legendary American writer, is renowned for his haunting and macabre tales. Born in 1809, Poe's literary works have captivated readers for generations. With his unforgettable stories like "The Tell-Tale Heart" and "The Raven," Poe's mastery of suspense and psychological horror is unrivaled. His unique writing style continues to inspire contemporary authors, making him a revered figure in gothic literature. Explore the enigmatic world of Edgar Allan Poe and immerse yourself in his chilling tales of darkness and despair.

The true genius shudders at incompleteness — imperfection — and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.

- Edgar Allan Poe

I have great faith in fools. Self-confidence my friends will call it.

- Edgar Allan Poe

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

- Edgar Allan Poe

Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.

- Edgar Allan Poe

The best things in life make you sweaty.

- Edgar Allan Poe

Sleep, those little slices of death — how I loathe them.

- Edgar Allan Poe

Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.

- Edgar Allan Poe

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

- Edgar Allan Poe

Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.

- Edgar Allan Poe

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

- Edgar Allan Poe

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

- Edgar Allan Poe

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

- Edgar Allan Poe

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

- Edgar Allan Poe

Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.

- Edgar Allan Poe

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

- 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

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

- Edgar Allan Poe

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.

- Edgar Allan Poe

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.

- Edgar Allan Poe

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

- 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

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

- Edgar Allan Poe

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

- Edgar Allan Poe

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.

- Edgar Allan Poe

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.

- Edgar Allan Poe

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

- Edgar Allan Poe

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?

- 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

There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.

- 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