Top 500 Edgar Allan Poe Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

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

— Edgar Allan Poe

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3. “And all I loved, I loved alone.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

4. “Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

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5. “I am a writer. Therefore. I am not sane.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

6. “There is no beauty without some strangeness.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

7. “Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

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8. “We loved with a love that was more than love.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

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

— Edgar Allan Poe

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10. “Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

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11. “I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

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12. “Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

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13. “Leave my loneliness unbroken.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

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14. “I do not suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

15. “To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

16. “Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

17. “And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

18. “Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

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19. “A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

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20. “The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

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21. “Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

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22. “Stupidity is a talent for misconception.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

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23. “Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

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24. “If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

25. “A wise man hears one word and understands two.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

26. “Those who gossip with you will gossip about you.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

27. “The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

28. “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?”

— Edgar Allan Poe

29. “There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

30. “Deep in earth my love is lying And I must weep alone.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

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31. “Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

32. “All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

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33. “The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

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34. “The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

35. “The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

36. “I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

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37. “To observe attentively is to remember distinctly.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

38. “The best things in life make you sweaty.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

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39. “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.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

40. “Sometimes I’m terrified of my heart; of its constant hunger for whatever it is it wants. The way it stops and starts.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

41. “Lord help my poor soul.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

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42. “There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

43. “I have no faith in human perfectability. 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

44. “It is a happiness to wonder; – it is a happiness to dream.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

45. “The goodness of the true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

46. “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

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47. “Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

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48. “That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

49. “False hope is nicer than no hope at all.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

50. “Sleep, those little slices of death – how I loathe them.”

— Edgar Allan Poe