Top 10 Most Famous Edgar Allan Poe Quotes (BEST)
“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
![Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.](https://graciousquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Deep-into-that-darkness-peering-long-I-stood-there-wondering-fearing-doubting-dreaming-dreams-no-mortal-ever-dared-to-dream-before..jpg)
![I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.](https://graciousquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/I-became-insane-with-long-intervals-of-horrible-sanity..jpg)
![Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.](https://graciousquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Beauty-of-whatever-kind-in-its-supreme-development-invariably-excites-the-sensitive-soul-to-tears..jpg)
![All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.](https://graciousquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/All-that-we-see-or-seem-is-but-a-dream-within-a-dream..jpg)
![Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.](https://graciousquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Those-who-dream-by-day-are-cognizant-of-many-things-which-escape-those-who-dream-only-by-night..jpg)
![I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.](https://graciousquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/I-would-define-in-brief-the-poetry-of-words-as-the-rhythmical-creation-of-Beauty..jpg)
![We loved with a love that was more than love.](https://graciousquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/We-loved-with-a-love-that-was-more-than-love..jpg)
![I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends will call it.](https://graciousquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/I-have-great-faith-in-fools-self-confidence-my-friends-will-call-it..jpg)
![I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.](https://graciousquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/I-was-never-really-insane-except-upon-occasions-when-my-heart-was-touched..jpg)
4 Edgar Allan Poe Quotes on Beauty and Dream
![It is a happiness to wonder; it is a happiness to dream.](https://graciousquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/It-is-a-happiness-to-wonder-it-is-a-happiness-to-dream..jpg)
![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.](https://graciousquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/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..jpg)
![There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.](https://graciousquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/There-is-no-exquisite-beauty…-without-some-strangeness-in-the-proportion..jpg)
![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.](https://graciousquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/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..jpg)
4 Inspirational Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
![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.](https://graciousquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/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..jpg)
![With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.](https://graciousquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/With-me-poetry-has-not-been-a-purpose-but-a-passion..jpg)
![I am actuated by an ambition which I believe to be an honorable one — the ambition of serving the great cause of truth, while endeavoring to forward the literature of the country.](https://graciousquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/I-am-actuated-by-an-ambition-which-I-believe-to-be-an-honorable-one-—-the-ambition-of-serving-the-great-cause-of-truth-while-endeavoring-to-forward-the-literature-of-the-country..jpg)
![A poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul.](https://graciousquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/A-poem-deserves-its-title-only-inasmuch-as-it-excites-by-elevating-the-soul..jpg)
6 Edgar Allan Poe Quotes About Life
“I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom.”
Edgar Allan Poe
![The best things in life make you sweaty.](https://graciousquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/The-best-things-in-life-make-you-sweaty..jpg)
![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.](https://graciousquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/From-childhoods-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..jpg)
![All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.](https://graciousquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/All-religion-my-friend-is-simply-evolved-out-of-fraud-fear-greed-imagination-and-poetry..jpg)
![Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.](https://graciousquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Mans-real-life-is-happy-chiefly-because-he-is-ever-expecting-that-it-soon-will-be-so..jpg)
![That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.](https://graciousquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/That-man-is-not-truly-brave-who-is-afraid-either-to-seem-or-to-be-when-it-suits-him-a-coward..jpg)
4 Edgar Allan Poe Quotes on Death
![Sleep, those little slices of death — how I loathe them.](https://graciousquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Sleep-those-little-slices-of-death-—-how-I-loathe-them..jpg)
![To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!](https://graciousquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/To-die-laughing-must-be-the-most-glorious-of-all-glorious-deaths.jpg)
![The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.](https://graciousquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/The-death-of-a-beautiful-woman-is-unquestionably-the-most-poetical-topic-in-the-world..jpg)
![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?](https://graciousquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/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.jpg)
2 Edgar Allan Poe Quotes on Books and Reading
![In reading some books we occupy ourselves chiefly with the thoughts of the author; in perusing others, exclusively with our own.](https://graciousquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/In-reading-some-books-we-occupy-ourselves-chiefly-with-the-thoughts-of-the-author-in-perusing-others-exclusively-with-our-own..jpg)
![How many good books suffer neglect through the inefficiency of their beginnings!](https://graciousquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/How-many-good-books-suffer-neglect-through-the-inefficiency-of-their-beginnings.jpg)
3 Edgar Allan Poe Quotes on Love
![Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.](https://graciousquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Years-of-love-have-been-forgot-In-the-hatred-of-a-minute..jpg)
![Deep in earth my love is lying. And I must weep alone.](https://graciousquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Deep-in-earth-my-love-is-lying.-And-I-must-weep-alone..jpg)
![We loved with a love that was more than love… With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven coveted her and me.](https://graciousquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/We-loved-with-a-love-that-was-more-than-love…-With-a-love-that-the-winged-seraphs-of-heaven-coveted-her-and-me..jpg)
9 Wise Edgar Allan Poe Quotes (WISDOM)
“Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence – whether much that is glorious– whether all that is profound– does not spring from disease of thought – from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect.”
Edgar Allan Poe
![Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.](https://graciousquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Believe-nothing-you-hear-and-only-one-half-that-you-see..jpg)
![Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.](https://graciousquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Never-to-suffer-would-never-to-have-been-blessed..jpg)
![Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.](https://graciousquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Words-have-no-power-to-impress-the-mind-without-the-exquisite-horror-of-their-reality..jpg)
![To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.](https://graciousquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/To-vilify-a-great-man-is-the-readiest-way-in-which-a-little-man-can-himself-attain-greatness..jpg)
![I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.](https://graciousquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/I-have-indeed-no-abhorrence-of-danger-except-in-its-absolute-effect-in-terror..jpg)
![Invisible things are the only realities.](https://graciousquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Invisible-things-are-the-only-realities..jpg)
![The true genius shudders at incompleteness — imperfection — and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.](https://graciousquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/The-true-genius-shudders-at-incompleteness-—-imperfection-—-and-usually-prefers-silence-to-saying-the-something-which-is-not-everything-that-should-be-said..jpg)
![Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music without the idea is simply music; the idea without the music is prose from its very definitiveness.](https://graciousquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Music-when-combined-with-a-pleasurable-idea-is-poetry-music-without-the-idea-is-simply-music-the-idea-without-the-music-is-prose-from-its-very-definitiveness..jpg)
3 Funny Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
![If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.](https://graciousquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/If-you-wish-to-forget-anything-on-the-spot-make-a-note-that-this-thing-is-to-be-remembered..jpg)
![I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.](https://graciousquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/I-wish-I-could-write-as-mysterious-as-a-cat..jpg)
![It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.](https://graciousquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/It-will-be-found-in-fact-that-the-ingenious-are-always-fanciful-and-the-truly-imaginative-never-otherwise-than-analytic..jpg)
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