Quotes by
Edgar Allan Poe |
1809-1849 , American writer
Short-story writer, poet, critic, and editor who is famous for his cultivation of mystery and the macabre. His tale “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” (1841) initiated the modern detective story, and the atmosphere in his tales of horror is unrivaled in American fiction. His “The Raven” (1845) numbers among the best-known poems in the world literature.
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Quotations
| • | If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul, you haven’t experienced poetry. 6 |
| • | All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry. 6 |
| • | That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward. 6 |
| • | There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion. 5 |
| • | Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die. 5 |
| • | Even in the grave, all is not lost. 5 |
| • | We loved with a love that was more than love. 5 |
| • | Sleep, those little slices of death — how I loathe them. 4 |
| • | I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity. 4 |
| • | The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world. 4 |
| • | They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. 3 |
| • | Life is for the strong, to be lived by the strong and if need be, taken by the strong. The weak were put on earth to give the strong pleasure. 3 |
| • | Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words. 3 |
| • | Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears. 3 |
| • | Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality. |
| • | From childhood’s hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone. |
| • | The believer is happy. The doubter is wise. |
| • | The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls. |
| • | Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute. |
| • | Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge. |
| • | I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind. |
| • | Never to suffer would have been never to have been blessed. |
| • | Invisible things are the only realities. |
| • | There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told. |
| • | And all I loved, I loved alone. |
| • | I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched. |
| • | And now have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but overacuteness of the senses? |
| • | Perversity is the human thirst for self-torture. |
| • | It was night, and the rain fell; and falling, it was rain, but, having fallen, it was blood. |
| • | In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it. |
| • | I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat. |
| • | I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror. |
| • | The pioneers and missionaries of religion have been the real cause of more trouble and war than all other classes of mankind. |
| • | I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him. |
| • | Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man. |
| • | Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence. |
| • | Convinced myself, I seek not to convince. |
| • | To observe attentively is to remember distinctly. |
| • | Indeed, there is an eloquence in true enthusiasm that is not to be doubted. |
| • | To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths! |
| • | Stupidity is a talent for misconception. |
Quotes in Verse
| • | Is all that we see or seem But a dream within a dream? 5 |
| • | And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor, Shall be lifted Nevermore! |
