Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer and poet, known for his dark and macabre tales. His works, including “The Raven” and “The Tell-Tale Heart,” explored themes of madness, death, and the human psyche. Poe’s gothic style and haunting imagery have had a profound influence on literature and popular culture.
“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
“Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.”
“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
“Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.”
“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
“Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.”
“Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.”
“There is no beauty without some strangeness.”
“The death of a beautiful woman is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.”
“Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.”
“All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.”
“I have great faith in fools; self-confidence, my friends call it.”
“Men have called me mad, but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.”
“Years of love have been forgotten in the hatred of a minute.”
“To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!”
“Stupidity is a talent for misconception.”
“There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.”
“There is no such thing as a great talent without great willpower.”
“To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.”
“I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.”
“Sleep, those little slices of death—how I loathe them.”
“The best things in life make you sweaty.”
“With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.”
“I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity.”
“There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.”
“The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.”
“It is a happiness to wonder; it is a happiness to dream.”
“The true genius shudders at incompleteness—imperfection—and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.”
“I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity.”
“It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.”
“To observe attentively is to remember distinctly.”
“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
“We loved with a love that was more than love.”
“Deep in earth my love is lying, and I must weep alone.”
“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?”
“I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom.”
These quotes delve into themes of love, dreams, life and death, self-reflection, and the power of words. They capture the essence of Poe’s writing style, which often evokes a sense of mystery, melancholy, and beauty.
