Authors:  A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Edgar Allan Poe's Quotes

Edgar Allan Poe profile photo

Born: 1970-01-01
Profession: Poet
Nation: American
Biography of Edgar Allan Poe

See the gallery for quotes by Edgar Allan Poe. You can to use those 7 images of quotes as a desktop wallpapers.
Edgar Allan Poe's quote #1
Edgar Allan Poe's quote #2
Edgar Allan Poe's quote #3
Edgar Allan Poe's quote #4
Edgar Allan Poe's quote #5
Edgar Allan Poe's quote #6
Edgar Allan Poe's quote #7

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

Tags: Afraid, Brave, Him

That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.

Tags: Beautiful, Once, Pleasure

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.

Tags: Dreams, Hope, True

Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.

Tags: Able, Dislike, Said

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.

Tags: Dream, Future, Means

There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.

Tags: Few, Popularity, Test

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

Tags: Passion, Poetry, Purpose

The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.

Tags: Fire, Reason, Taught

It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.

Tags: Fact, Found, Truly

I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.

Tags: Danger, Effect, Except

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.

Tags: Beauty, Poetry, Words

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

Tags: Mob, Nose, Time

It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.

Tags: General, Nature, Truth

To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.

Tags: Great, Greatness, Himself

The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.

Tags: Found, May, Verse

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.

Tags: Men, Religion, Strong

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.

Tags: Case, Obscure, Point

There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.

Tags: Friendship, Heart, Love

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

Tags: Deep, Dream, Dreams

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

Tags: Horrible, Insane, Sanity

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.

Tags: Dream, Imagination, Night

We loved with a love that was more than love.

Tags: Love, Loved

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

Tags: Fear, Poetry, Religion
Visit partners pages
Visit partners pages
Much more quotes by Edgar Allan Poe below the page.

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

Tags: Dream, Seem, Within

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

Tags: Mind, Power, Reality

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.

Tags: Faith, Happy, Wise

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

Tags: Beauty, Soul, Whatever

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?

Tags: Best, Death, Life

If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.

Tags: Forget, Remembered, Wish

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

Tags: Faith, Friends, Great

I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.

Tags: Pet, Wish, Write

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

Tags: Saying, Silence, True

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

Tags: Madness, Science, Taught

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

Tags: Dream, Escape, Night

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.

Tags: Once, Weak, While

Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

Tags: Stupidity, Talent

I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.

Tags: Between, Cause, Weakness

Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.

Tags: Beauty, Poetry, Words

Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

Tags: Happy, Life, Real

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

Tags: Beautiful, Death, Woman

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

Tags: Criticism, Friend, Purpose

Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'

Tags: Art, Nature, Soul

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.

Tags: Experience, True, Truth
Sualci Quotes friends