Best Edgar Allan Poe Quotes

Edgar Allan Poe Quotes About Love, Insanity, Dark, Beauty, Loneliness, Sleep, & Hope! In addition to writing and poetry, Edgar Allan Poe was also a publisher and literary critic. Among Poe’s many literary accomplishments are his works of poetry and fiction, notably his tales of horror and the macabre. As a central character in American literature, he is often considered a pivotal player in American Romanticism.

On January 19, 1809, Poe was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He had to stop going to the University of Virginia because he didn’t have enough money. Both his educational expenses and gambling debts were a point of conflict between him and Allan. Following his enlistment in the United States Army under an assumed identity, he released his first book of poetry, Tamerlane and Other Poems, in 1827, which was only ascribed to “a Bostonian.”

Poe shifted his concentration from poetry to prose and worked for literary magazines and publications for the next several years, becoming renowned for his distinctive brand of literary critique. His job required him to travel often between Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York City. Instant fame and fortune followed the publication of Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “The Raven” in January 1845. He had intended for years to publish his newspaper, The Penn (later renamed The Stylus), but it can be done.

When he died on October 7, 1849, it was as unknown as his stories were. However, he left behind a powerful legacy that will help those who want to assume his role. Poe and his works have had a significant impact on literature worldwide and on specific fields like cosmology and cryptography, which are very specific. He and his work are all over in literature, music, movies, and TV.

Best Edgar Allan Poe Quotes

1. “If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.” – Edgar Allan Poe

2. “Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.” – Edgar Allan Poe

3. “And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.” – Edgar Allan Poe

4. “Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.” – Edgar Allan Poe

5. “I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.” – Edgar Allan Poe

6. “The true genius shudders at incompleteness — imperfection — and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.” – Edgar Allan Poe

7. “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

8. “Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.” – Edgar Allan Poe

9. “Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.” – Edgar Allan Poe

10. “I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.” – Edgar Allan Poe

11. “All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.” – Edgar Allan Poe

12. “There is no exquisite beauty…without some strangeness in the proportion.” – Edgar Allan Poe

13. “Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.” – Edgar Allan Poe

14. “I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.” – Edgar Allan Poe

15. “Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.” – Edgar Allan Poe

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

17. “With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.” – Edgar Allan Poe

18. “Even in the grave, all is not lost.” – Edgar Allan Poe

19. “There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.” – Edgar Allan Poe

20. “I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.” – Edgar Allan Poe

21. “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.” – Edgar Allan Poe

22. “Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.” – Edgar Allan Poe