Step into the hauntingly beautiful world of Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849), where every quote drips with mystery, melancholy, and genius. Whether you're a literature lover, a writer chasing inspiration, or just someone who enjoys a touch of the macabre, these timeless quotes will stir your imagination and give your words a darkly poetic edge. Ready to channel your inner Poe? Let’s dive into his most unforgettable lines.
Best Quotes By Edgar Allan Poe
Invisible things are the only realities.
Edgar Allan Poe
I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
Edgar Allan Poe
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
Edgar Allan Poe
I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it.
Edgar Allan Poe
I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
Edgar Allan Poe
There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.
Edgar Allan Poe
I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.
Edgar Allan Poe
Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best have gone to their eternal rest.
Edgar Allan Poe
I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.
Edgar Allan Poe
Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
Edgar Allan Poe
I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.
Edgar Allan Poe
That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
Edgar Allan Poe
To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.
Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe Love Quotes
We loved with a love that was more than love.
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Deep in earth my love is lying, and I must weep alone.
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With me, poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
Edgar Allan Poe
For passionate love is still divine.
Edgar Allan Poe
They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Edgar Allan Poe
This maiden she lived with no other thought than to love and be loved by me.
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And all I loved, I loved alone.
Edgar Allan Poe
Years of love have been forgotten, in the hatred of a minute.
Edgar Allan Poe
And so, being young and dipped in folly, I fell in love with melancholy.
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Edgar Allan Poe Quotes On Life And Death
To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths.
Edgar Allan Poe
Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.
Edgar Allan Poe
Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.
Edgar Allan Poe
From childhood's hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone
Edgar Allan Poe
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
If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
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Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
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The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
Edgar Allan Poe
The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague.
Edgar Allan Poe
Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins.
Edgar Allan Poe
I have no faith in human perfectibility. 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.
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Sleep, those little slices of death, how I loathe them.
Edgar Allan Poe
Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
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