Edgar Allan Poe Quotes

We loved with a love that was more than love.

The best things in life make you sweaty.

And all I loved, I loved alone.

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.

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

Invisible things are the only realities.

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

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

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

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.

I have no words - alas! - to tell
The loveliness of loving well!

Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December
And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
Eagerly I wished the morrow; - vainly I had sought to borrow
From my books surcease of sorrow - sorrow for the lost Lenore.

Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.

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?

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.

Who has not, a hundred times, found himself committing a vile or silly action for no other reason than because he knows he should not? Have we not a perpetual inclination, in the teeth of our best judgement, to violate that which is Law, merely because we understand it to be such?

Philosophers have often held dispute
As to the seat of thought in man and brute
For that the power of thought attends the latter
My friend, thy beau, hath made a settled matter,
And spite of dogmas current in all ages,
One settled fact is better than ten sages. (O,Tempora! O,Mores!)

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

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.

It is a happiness to wonder; - it is a happiness to dream.