Edgar Allan Poe Quotes



       “Invisible things are the only realities.” 
- Edgar Allan Poe


        “I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.” 
- 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

       “All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.” 
- Edgar Allan Poe

       “We loved with a love that was more than love.”
- Edgar Allan Poe

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

       “The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.” 
- Edgar Allan Poe

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

       “There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.” 
- Edgar Allan Poe

       “We loved with a love that was more than love.” 
- Edgar Allan Poe

       “I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.” 
- Edgar Allan Poe

        “I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.” 
- Edgar Allan Poe

        “I do not suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it.” 
- Edgar Allan Poe

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

       “Stupidity is a talent for misconception.” 
- Edgar Allan Poe

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

       “It is a happiness to wonder; -- it is a happiness to dream.” 
- Edgar Allan Poe

       “Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.” 
- Edgar Allan Poe

       “If you run out of ideas follow the road; you'll get there” 
- Edgar Allan Poe

       “Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.” 
- Edgar Allan Poe


        “I remained to much inside my head and ended up losing my mind” 
- 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

        “Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.” 
- Edgar Allan Poe

        “All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.” 
- Edgar Allan Poe

       “The rain came down upon my head - Unshelter'd. And the wind rendered me mad and deaf and blind.” 
- Edgar Allan Poe

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

        “The idea of God, infinity, or spirit stands for the possible attempt at an impossible conception.” 
- Edgar Allan Poe

        “Deep in earth my love is lying, And I must weep alone.” 
- Edgar Allan Poe

       “Even for those to whom life and death are equal jests. There are some things that are still held in respect.” 
- Edgar Allan Poe,

        “He is, as you say, a remarkable horse, a prodigious horse, although as you very justly observe, a suspicious and untractable character.” 
- Edgar Allan Poe
 
        “the agony of my soul found vent in one loud, long and final scream of despair.” 
- 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 no beauty without some strangeness.” 
- Edgar Allan Poe

       “I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind” 
- Edgar Allan Poe

       “Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive” 
- Edgar Allan Poe

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

       “And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.” 
- Edgar Allan Poe

       “It is a happiness to wonder; it is a happiness to dream.” 
- Edgar Allan Poe

       “You call it hope-that fire of fire! It is but agony of desire.” 
- Edgar Allan Poe

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