Edgar Allan Poe quotes

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity. (Edgar Allan Poe)
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?
Edgar Allan Poe
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
Edgar Allan Poe
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.'
Edgar Allan Poe
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
Edgar Allan Poe
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.
Edgar Allan Poe
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
Edgar Allan Poe
If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
Edgar Allan Poe
I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.
Edgar Allan Poe
That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
Edgar Allan Poe
With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion. (Edgar Allan Poe)
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.
Edgar Allan Poe
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.
Edgar Allan Poe
Sleep. Those little slices of death. How I loathe them.
Edgar Allan Poe
years of love have been forgot, in the hatred of a minute.
Edgar Allan Poe
True! - nervous - very, very nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?
Edgar Allan Poe
Perched upon a bust of Pallas, just above my chamber door, Perched, and sat, and nothing more.
Edgar Allan Poe
The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all these more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind.
Edgar Allan Poe
Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
Edgar Allan Poe
We loved with a love that was more than love.
Edgar Allan Poe
Convinced myself, I seek not to convince. (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
And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor Shall be lifted Nevermore.
Edgar Allan Poe
After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.
Edgar Allan Poe
And all I loved, I loved alone.
Edgar Allan Poe