Edgar Allan Poe quotes

It is more than probable that I am not understood; but I fear, indeed, that it is in no manner
possible to convey to the mind of the merely general reader, an adequate idea of that
nervous intensity of interest with which, in my case, the powers of meditation (not to speak
technically) busied and buried themselves, in the contemplation of even the most ordinary
objects of the universe.
Edgar Allan Poe

Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
Edgar Allan Poe

The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
Edgar Allan Poe

The mental features discoursed of as the analytical, are, in themselves, but little susceptible
of analysis. We appreciate them only in their effects. We know of them, among other things,
that they are always to their possessor, when inordinately possessed, a source of the
liveliest enjoyment. As the strong man exults in his physical ability, delighting in such
exercises as call his muscles into action, so glories the analyst in that moral activity which
disentangles. He derives pleasure from even the most trivial occupations bringing his talents
into play. He is fond of enigmas, of conundrums, of hieroglyphics; exhibiting in his solutions of
each a degree of acumen which appears to the ordinary apprehension preternatural. His
results, brought about by the very soul and essence of method, have, in truth, the whole air
of intuition.
Edgar Allan Poe

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

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
Edgar Allan Poe

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

No pictorial or sculptural combinations of points of human loveliness, do more than approach
the living and breathing human beauty as it gladdens our daily path.
Edgar Allan Poe

There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.
Edgar Allan Poe

We should bear in mind that, in general, it is the object of our newspapers rather to create a
sensation - to make a point - than to further the cause of truth.
Edgar Allan Poe

But as in ethics, evil is a consequence of good, so in fact, out of joy is sorrow born. Either
the memory of past bliss is the anguish of today, or the agonies which are have their origin in
the ecstasies which might have been.
Edgar Allan Poe

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty. Its sole
arbiter is taste.
Edgar Allan Poe

But our love it was stronger by far than the love
Of those who were older than we
Of many far wiser than we
And neither the angels in Heaven above
Nor the demons down under the sea
Can ever dissever my soul from the soul
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee.
Edgar Allan Poe