Top 500 Edgar Allan Poe Quotes (2026 Update)
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301. “But tomorrow I die, and today I would unburden my soul.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

302. “We gave him a hearty welcome, for there was nearly half as much of the entertaining as of the contemptible about the man...”

— Edgar Allan Poe

303. “It is in Music, perhaps, that the soul most nearly attains the great end for which, when inspired by the Poetic Sentiment, it struggles – the creation of supernal Beauty.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

304. “Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night’s Plutonian shore!” Quoth the Raven, “Nevermore.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

305. “Men have called me mad; but the question is not settled whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

306. “Democracy is a very admirable form of government – for dogs.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

307. “Immensely tall trunks of trees, gray and leafless, rose up in endless succession as far as the eye could reach. Their roots were concealed in wide-spreading morasses, whose dreary water lay intensely black, still, and altogether terrible, beneath. And the strange trees seemed endowed with a human vitality, and waving to and fro their skeleton arms, were crying to the silent waters for mercy, in the shrill and piercing accents of the most acute agony and despair.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

308. “When I was young and filled with folly, I fell in love with melancholy.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

309. “I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell. How, then, am I mad? Hearken! and observe how healthily – how calmly I can tell you the whole story.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

310. “Tell me truly, I implore – Is there – is there balm in Gilead? – tell me – tell me, I implore!”

— Edgar Allan Poe

311. “We allude to the short prose narrative, requiring from a half hour to one or two hours in its perusal.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

312. “There are some qualities, some incorporate things, that have a double life, which thus is made. A type os twin entity which springs from matter and light, envinced in solid and shade.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

313. “Ask not for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for the raven nevermore.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

314. “We gave the Future to the winds, and slumbered tranquilly in the Present, weaving the dull world around us into dreams.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

315. “With such precautions the courtiers might bid defiance to contagion. The external world could take care of itself. In the meantime it was folly to grieve, or to think.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

316. “When reason returned with the morning – when I had slept off the fumes of the night’s debauch – I experienced a sentiment half of horror, half of remorse, for the crime of which I had been guilty; but it was, at best, a feeble and equivocal feeling, and the soul remained untouched.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

317. “Chi sogna di giorno conosce molte cose che sfuggono a chi sogna solo di notte.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

318. “In the tale proper – where there is no space for development of character or for great profusion and variety of incident – mere construction is, of course, far more imperatively demanded than in the novel.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

319. “The depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

320. “I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell. How, then, am I mad?”

— Edgar Allan Poe

321. “One morning, in cool blood, I slipped a noose about its neck and hung it to the limb of a tree; – hung it with the tears streaming from my eyes, and with the bitterest remorse at my heart; – hung it because I knew that it had loved me, and because I felt it had given me no reason of offence; – hung it because I knew that in so doing I was committing a sin.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

322. “The antique volume which I had taken up was the “Mad Trist” of Sir Launcelot Canning; but I had called it a favorite of Usher’s more in sad jest than in earnest; for, in truth, there is little in its uncouth and unimaginative prolixity which could have had interest for the lofty and spiritual ideality of my friend.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

323. “Because it was my crime to have no one on Earth who cared for me, or loved me.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

324. “I have said that the sole effect of my somewhat childish experiment – that of looking down within the tarn – had been to deepen the first singular impression. There can be no doubt that the consciousness of the rapid increase of my superstition – for why should I not so term it? – served mainly to accelerate the increase itself. Such, I have long known, is the paradoxical law of all sentiments having terror as a basis.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

325. “All in vain; because Death, in approaching him had stalked with his black shadow before him, and enveloped the victim. And it was the mournful influence of the unperceived shadow that caused him to feel – although he neither saw nor heard – to feel the presence of my head within the room.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

326. “There can be no doubt that the consciousness of the rapid increase of my superstition – for why should I not so term it? – served mainly to accelerate the increase itself. Such, I have long known, is the paradoxical.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

327. “Other friends have flown before – On the morrow he will leave me, as my hopes have flown before.” Then the bird said, “Nevermore.” Startled.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

328. “And now have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the senses?”

— Edgar Allan Poe

329. “I call to mind flatness and dampness; and then all is madness – the madness of a memory which busies itself among forbidden things.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

330. “A feeling, for which I have no name, has taken possession of my soul.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

331. “Those eyes! those large, those shining, those divine orbs! they became to me twin stars of Leda, and I to them devoutest of astrologers.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

332. “If we cannot comprehend God in his visible works, how then in his inconceivable thoughts, that call the works into being?”

— Edgar Allan Poe

333. “Actually, I do have doubts, all the time. Any thinking person does. There are so many sides to every question.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

334. “But we loved with a love that was more than love, I and my Annabel Lee.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

335. “I saw no heaven – but in her eyes.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

336. “And then there are times, Mr. Osgood, when one must just let go.” His gaze softened. “I believe,” he said after a moment, “that those are the happiest of times.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

337. “TRUE! – nervous – very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses – not destroyed – not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute. I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell. How, then, am I mad? Hearken! and observe how healthily – how calmly I can tell you the whole story.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

338. “A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

339. “With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

340. “The winters in the latitude of Sullivan’s Island are seldom very severe, and in the fall of the year it is a rare event indeed.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

341. “I kneel, an altered and an humble man, Amid thy shadows, and so drink within My very soul thy grandeur, gloom, and glory!”

— Edgar Allan Poe

342. “Long suffering had nearly annihilated all my ordinary powers of mind. I was an imbecile – an idiot.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

343. “Darkness there, and nothing more.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

344. “Science has its place in man’s search for understanding, but science and the imagination have tended to bifurcate in the modern world; only the true poetic intellect can end this long-established dualism.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

345. “Luchesi cannot tell amontillado from a sherry.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

346. “Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells From the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells – From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

347. “And thus when by Poetry, or when by Music, the most entrancing of the poetic moods, we find ourselves melted into tears, we weep then, not... through excess of pleasure, but through a certain petulant, impatient sorrow at our inability to grasp now, wholly, here on earth, at once and forever, those divine and raptorous joys of which through the poem, or through the music, we attain to but brief and indeterminate glimpses.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

348. “The memory of a past happiness is the anguish of today.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

349. “There was a discordant hum of human voices! There was a loud blast as of many trumpets! There was a harsh grating as of a thousand thunders! The fiery walls rushed back! An outstretched arm caught my own as I fell, fainting, into the abyss. It was that of General Lasalle. The French army had entered Toledo. The Inquisition was in the hands of its enemies.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

350. “A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this – that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made – not to understand – but to feel – as crime.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

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