Famous Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
Edgar Allen Poe was an American poet, author, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. He was best known for his horror and mystery tales. Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre. He is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction. Here are some Famous Edgar Allan Poe Quotes from his best works.
Edgar Allan Poe Love Quotes
“Love like mine can never be gotten over.”
“We loved with a love that was more than love.”
“Leave my loneliness unbroken.”
“I fell in love with melancholy.”
“The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.”
“Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.”
Edgar Allan Poe Quotes about Insanity & Mind
“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
“I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.”
“I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.”
“Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.”
Best Edgar Allan Poe Quotes on Dreams & Reality
“It is a happiness to wonder; — it is a happiness to dream.”
“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
“Yet mad I am not…and very surely do I not dream.”
“Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.”
“Even in the grave, all is not lost.”
“There is no beauty without some strangeness.”
“Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.”
Edgar Allan Poe Quotes Annabel Lee
“In the sepulchre there by the sea, In her tomb by the sounding sea.”
“For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams”
“I was a child and she was a child,
In this kingdom by the sea;
But we loved with a love that was more than love-
I and my Annabel Lee;
With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven
Coveted her and me.”
Edgar Allan Poe Quotes Tell Tale Heart
“I smiled,—for what had I to fear?”
“I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth.I heard many things in hell.”
“It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain; but once conceived, it haunted me day and night.”
“They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
Edgar Allan Poe Quotes from The Raven
“Leave my loneliness unbroken”
“Here I opened wide the door;— Darkness there, and nothing more.”
“Darkness there, and nothing more.”
“Actually, I do have doubts, all the time. Any thinking person does. There are so many sides to every question.”
“Lenore — For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore — Nameless”
“But the raven, sitting lonely on the placid bust, spoke only That one word, as if his soul in that one word he did outpour.”
“Once upon a midnight dreary, while”
“Prophet!’ said I, ‘thing of evil! – prophet still, it bird or devil!”
“Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.”
“And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor, Shall be lifted-Nevermore!”
Random Quotes by Edgar Allan Poe
“I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.”
“Stupidity is a talent for misconception.”
“With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.”
“To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.”
“Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.”
“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?”
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