Edgar Allan Poe Quotes

"Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears."
-Edgar Allan Poe

"Coincidences, in general, are great stumbling-blocks in the way of that class of thinkers who have been educated to know nothing of the theory of probabilities."
-Edgar Allan Poe

"Convinced myself, I seek not to convince."
-Edgar Allan Poe in Knowledge quotes.

"To be thoroughly conversant with a man's heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of despair."
-Edgar Allan Poe

"Scorching my seared heart with a pain, not hell shall make me fear again."
-Edgar Allan Poe

"In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me."
-Edgar Allan Poe

"There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction."
-Edgar Allan Poe

"I do not suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it."
-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

"It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve."
-Edgar Allan Poe

"All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry."
-Edgar Allan Poe in Religion quotes.

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

"I have great faith in fools; self-confidence, my friends call it."
-Edgar Allan Poe

"With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion."
-Edgar Allan Poe

"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity."
-Edgar Allan Poe

"In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed."
-Edgar Allan Poe

"The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led."
-Edgar Allan Poe

"Depend upon it, after all, Thomas, Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man. For my own part, there is no seducing me from the path."
-Edgar Allan Poe

"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

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

"Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence."
-Edgar Allan Poe

"Stupidity is a talent for misconception."
-Edgar Allan Poe

"Never to suffer would never to have been blessed."
-Edgar Allan Poe in Suffering quotes.

"But in the expression of the countenance, which was beaming all over with smiles, there still lurked (incomprehensible anomaly!) that fitful stain of melancholy which will ever be found inseparable from the perfection of the beautiful."
-Edgar Allan Poe

"The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be."
-Edgar Allan Poe in Genius quotes.

"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."
-Edgar Allan Poe in Dreams quotes.

"But as in ethics, evil is a consequence of good, so, in fact, out of joy is sorrow born."
-Edgar Allan Poe