Edgar Allan Poe quotes

Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, and literary critic, famous for his macabre and mysterious works. His stories and poems laid the foundations for modern detective fiction and greatly influenced the genres of horror and gothic literature. He is remembered for masterpieces such as "The Raven" and "The Tell-Tale Heart." Here are 205 of his quotes:

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

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

Edgar Allan Poe

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.'

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

Edgar Allan Poe

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

Edgar Allan Poe

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

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

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

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

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

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.

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Sleep. Those little slices of death. How I loathe them.

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years of love have been forgot, in the hatred of a minute.

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True! - nervous - very, very nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?

Edgar Allan Poe

Perched upon a bust of Pallas, just above my chamber door, Perched, and sat, and nothing more.

Edgar Allan Poe

The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all these more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind.

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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

Edgar Allan Poe

We loved with a love that was more than love.

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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

And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor Shall be lifted Nevermore.

Edgar Allan Poe

After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Edgar Allan Poe

And all I loved, I loved alone.

Edgar Allan Poe