Edgar Allan Poe is considered one of the greatest and most influential American writers in history. Edgar Allan Poe continues to exert his fascination on readers of all kinds even today and his texts are able to intrigue even us who live in another millennium compared to his. He takes up certain suggestions from the neo-Gothic movement, however freeing himself from the typical settings of this genre, and further developing the psychological aspects, investigating personal obsessions and nightmares; therefore it can also be considered as a precursor of decadence.

Poe is also considered America’s first alienated writer, having struggled for much of his life with financial problems, alcohol and drug abuse, and the misunderstanding of the public and critics of the time. But his words remained immortal. Read the following Edgar Allan Poe quotes about life, love and happiness and share it to inspire others.

Best Edgar Allan Poe Quotes

Edgar Allan Poe we remember him as one of the most influential authors of nineteenth-century American literature, Poe was the initiator of the detective story, horror literature and psychological mystery. Poe, a highly inventive writer, anticipated literary genres such as the detective story, and science fiction. Read down below best Edgar Allan Poe quotes and send it to friends or share on social media.

🔑Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.

🔑Invisible things are the only realities.

🔑Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

🔑We loved with a love that was more than love.

🔑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.

🔑Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.

🔑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.

🔑And all I loved, I loved alone.

🔑The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.

🔑If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.

🔑Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.

🔑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.

🔑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.

🔑Sleep, those little slices of death — how I loathe them.

🔑I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.

🔑I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

🔑Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

🔑And I must weep alone.

🔑Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.

🔑I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.

🔑Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

🔑And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.

🔑I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.

🔑Deep in earth my love is lying.

🔑Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

🔑I have great faith in fools – self-confidence my friends will call it.

🔑There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.

🔑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.

🔑The true genius shudders at incompleteness — imperfection — and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.

🔑I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.

🔑I have no faith in human perfectibility. 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 Guotes about Love

Edgar Allan Poe was a famous American writer. Born in Boston in 1809, the author is considered one of the masters of American fiction of all time. Poe is considered the father of the detective story and the psychological mystery. The author, however, is above all recognized as the first true great master of horror fiction. Read down below Edgar Allan Poe guotes about love and share it with your loved one. These also can be great Twitter quotes to share.

📙Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. Eleanora

📙We loved with a love that was more than love…With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven/Coveted her and me. Annabel Lee

📙Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. The Raven

📙Yes, I now feel that it was then on that evening of sweet dreams—that the very first dawn of human love burst upon the icy night of my spirit. Since that period I have never seen nor heard your name without a shiver half of delight half of anxiety. A letter to Sarah Helen Whitman

📙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. The Black Cat

📙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. Marginalia

📙All that we see or seem / Is but a dream within a dream. A Dream Within A Dream

📙Because I feel that, in the Heavens above, The angels, whispering to one another, Can find, among their burning terms of love, None so devotional as that of ‘Mother.’ To My Mother

📙For passionate love is still divine / I lov’d her as an angel might / With ray of the all living light / Which blazes upon Edis’ shrine. Tamerlane

📙And all my days are trances / And all my nightly dreams / Are where thy grey eye glances / And where thy footstep gleams—/ In what ethereal dances / By what eternal streams. To One in Paradise

Meaningful Edgar Allan Poe Quotes About Life And Literature

Dark, disturbing, psychological tales: Poe is considered one of the most influential writers of American fiction, despite the fact that his works were often not immediately appreciated by critics. The dark tones of his stories earned him the reputation of a Gothic writer, but alongside stories about death, Poe wrote others pervaded by subtle irony and also an amount of dark quotes. A decidedly eclectic and talented writer, then. Read down below meaningful Edgar Allan Poe quotes about life and literature and share it on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.

📘Sleep, those little slices of death — how I loathe them.

📘Melancholy is thus the most legitimate of all the poetical tones.

📘A very short poem, while now and then producing a brilliant or vivid, never produces a profound or enduring, effect.

📘Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

📘Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

📘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?

📘The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.

📘Thank Heaven! the crisis—The danger is past, And the lingering illness, Is over at last.

📘Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.

📘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.

📘Undue brevity degenerates into mere epigrammatism.

📘Come! let the burial rite be read–the funeral song be sung!—An anthem for the queenliest dead that ever died so young—A dirge for her the doubly dead in that she died so young.

📘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.

📘It is with literature as with law or empire – an established name is an estate in tenure, or a throne in possession.

📘And all I loved, I loved alone.

📘There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.

📘To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!

📘Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.

📘Deep in earth my love is lying and I must weep alone.

📘Beauty is the sole legitimate province of the poem.

📘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.

📘In reading some books we occupy ourselves chiefly with the thoughts of the author; in perusing others, exclusively with our own.

📘Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

Edgar Allan Poe Quotes about Success

Leaving the army, Poe enrolled in the West Point Military Academy, but was expelled for negligence because he spends his time writing and decides to start trying to devote himself seriously to literature, making himself appreciated in the field of magazines with the story, Manuscript found in a bottle. However, the lack of a copyright law and his alcoholism cause him constant difficulties and force him to repeatedly ask for financial aid. Even though his words are impecable and inspirational. Read down below Edgar Allan Poe quotes about success and your day will became more brighter.

🔅They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

🔅Reality is the #1 cause of insanity among those who are in contact with it.

🔅I have great faith in fools,— self-confidence my friends will call it.

🔅False hope is nicer than no hope at all.

🔅To observe attentively is to remember distinctly.

🔅If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.

🔅If you run out of ideas follow the road; you’ll get there.

🔅That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.

🔅I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.

🔅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.

🔅Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.

🔅There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.

🔅All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

🔅Always keep a big bottle of booze at your side. If a bird starts talking nonsense to you in the middle of the night pour yourself a stiff drink.

🔅The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow.

🔅I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.

🔅I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

🔅I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.

🔅And all I loved, I loved alone.

🔅Leave my loneliness unbroken.

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

🔅I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.

🔅Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.

🔅Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

🔅There is no beauty without some strangeness.

🔅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?

🔅Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.

🔅Sometimes I’m terrified of my heart; of its constant hunger for whatever it is it wants. The way it stops and starts.

🔅Once upon a midnight dreary.

🔅Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

🔅The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.

🔅Never to suffer would have been never to have been blessed.

🔅Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.

🔅The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.

🔅No man who ever lived knows any more about the hereafter than you and I.

🔅A wise man hears one word and understands two.

🔅A mystery, and a dream, should my early life seem.