Edgar Allan Poe quotes page 1

1809-1849, American author and poet

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

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

I have no faith in human perfectibility. 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

To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.
Edgar Allan Poe

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

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

Years of love have been forgot, in the hatred of a minute.
Edgar Allan Poe

Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
Edgar Allan Poe

To be thoroughly conversant with a man's heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped
volume of despair.
Edgar Allan Poe

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content, but the hope of the world made new, is the
hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.
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

Sleep, those little slices of death; oh how I loathe them.
Edgar Allan Poe

The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
Edgar Allan Poe

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
Edgar Allan Poe

There is no exquisite beauty - without some strangeness in the proportion.
Edgar Allan Poe

The best things in life make you sweaty.
Edgar Allan Poe

Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
Edgar Allan Poe

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

The happiest day - the happiest hour,
My sear'd and blighted heart hath known,
The highest hope of pride and power,
I feel hath flown.
Edgar Allan Poe

If I could dwell
Where Israfel
Hath dwelt, and he where I,
He might not sing so wildly well
A mortal melody,
While a bolder note than this might swell
From my lyre within the sky.
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

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."
Edgar Allan Poe

O God! Can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?
Edgar Allan Poe

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

A gentleman with a pug nose is a contradiction in terms.
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

Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.
Edgar Allan Poe

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