19 beautiful quotes by Edgar Allan Poe. Click any quote to view, download and share it as an image.
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Edgar Allan Poe
“I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it.”
“Sleep, those little slices of death — how I loathe them.”
“The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.”
“To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.”
“Even in the grave, all is not lost.”
“There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.”
“All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.”
“With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.”
“It is a happiness to wonder; -- it is a happiness to dream.”
“Yet mad I am not...and very surely do I not dream.”
“I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit o...
“It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existen...
“I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.”
“Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.”
“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. In their gray visions t...
“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 ...
“I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man...
“The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where ...
“I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down."[Letter to J. Beauchamp Jones, August 8, 1839]”
