Edgar Allan Poe

Quotes

• “Beneath the pressure of torments such as these, the feeble remnant of the good within me succumbed. Evil thoughts became...”
• “Most literary agents advise young writers to avoid writing short stories. [...] If Edgar Allen Poe were alive today, his...”
• “Almost without the first sign of moral principle, or of the concrete and its heroisms, or the simpler affections of the ...”
• “Object there was none. Passion there was none. I loved the old man. He had never wronged me. He had never given me insul...”
• “After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought on the topics of God and the soul, t...”
• “It is impossible to describe, or to imagine, the deep, the blissful sense of relief which the absence of the detested cr...”
• “And now have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the senses? -- now, I say, there ...”
• “Thus it appeared, I say, but was not. It was my antagonist-it was Wilson, who then stood before me in the agonies of his...”
• “The enormous multiplication of books in every branch of knowledge is one of the greatest evils of this age; since it pre...”
• “Originally published in a review of "Reports of Cases Decided in the High Court of Chancery of Maryland", where the next...”
• “During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in ...”
• “Helen, thy beauty is to meLike those Nicean barks of yore,That gently, o'er a perfumed sea,The weary, wayworn wanderer b...”
• “For the most wild, yet most homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief. Mad indeed wo...”
• “An enthusiasm for Poe is the mark of a decidedly primitive stage of reflection. Baudelaire thought him a profound philos...”
• “There is then no analogy whatever between the operations of the Chess-Player, and those of the calculating machine of Mr...”
• “Get thee back into the tempest and the Night's Plutonian shore!Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath...”
• “A large mirror,-so at first it seemed to me in my confusion-now stood where none had been perceptible before; and, as I ...”
• “W.B. Yeats, quoted by Marjorie Perloff "The strange voice of Edgar Allan Poe" The Times Literary Supplement (February 6,...”
• “If you still think me mad, you will think so no longer when I describe the wise precautions I took for the concealment o...”
• “Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term "Art," I should call it "the reproduction of what the Senses perceive...”
• “I would define, in brief, the Poetry of words as the Rhythmical Creation of Beauty. Its sole arbiter is taste. With the ...”
• “I attacked with great resolution the editorial matter, and, reading it from beginning to end without understanding a syl...”
• “I do not know why you or indeed anybody should want to illustrate Poe. ... I admire a few lyrics of his extremely and a ...”
• “Few persons can be made to believe that it is not quite an easy thing to invent a method of secret writing which shall b...”
• “But our love it was stronger by far than the loveOf those who were older than we - Of many far wiser than we - And neith...”
• “Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,Wh...”
• “With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not - they...”
• “And as, in ethics, Evil is a consequence of Good, so, in fact, out of Joy is sorrow born. Either the memory of past blis...”
• “You have conquered, and I yield. Yet, henceforward art thou also dead-dead to the World, to Heaven and to Hope! In me di...”
• “You are not wrong, who deem That my days have been a dream; Yet if hope has flown awayIn a night, or in a day,In a visio...”
• “Poe...was perhaps the first great nonstop literary drinker of the American nineteenth century. He made the indulgences o...”
• “The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies ...”
• “Now the object Truth, or the satisfaction of the intellect, and the object Passion, or the excitement of the heart, are,...”
• “There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who ha...”
• “My visions were of shipwreck and famine; of death or captivity among barbarian hordes; of a lifetime dragged out in sorr...”
• “I grew, day by day, more moody, more irritable, more regardless of the feelings of others. I suffered myself to use inte...”
• “The death then of a beautiful woman is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world, and equally is it beyond dou...”
• “A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men o...”
• “Thou wast that all to me, love, For which my soul did pine - A green isle in the sea, love,A fountain and a shrine,All w...”
• “Doubtless," said I, "what it utters is its only stock and store,Caught from some unhappy master whom unmerciful Disaster...”
• “Depend upon it, after all, Thomas, Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit fo...”
• “Lo! Death has reared himself a throneIn a strange city lying aloneFar down within the dim West,Where the good and the ba...”
• “The skies they were ashen and sober;The leaves they were crisped and sere - The leaves they were withering and sere;It w...”
• “The Rationale of Verse", III (1848); this is comparable to: ""What! out of senseless Nothing to provoke / A conscious So...”
• “If I could dwellWhere IsrafelHath dwelt, and he where I,He might not sing so wildly wellA mortal melody,While a bolder n...”
• “Various forms of this quote are attributed to Poe, primarily by a title card in the movie A Nightmare on Elm Street 3, t...”
• “Muna Lee (writer) "Brother of Poe" in Southwest Review, July 1926. Included in A Pan-American Life: Selected Poetry and ...”
• “Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music without the idea is simply music; the idea without the mu...”
• “When I think of the long twenty-one years that I have called you father, and you have called me son, I cry like a child ...”
• “Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore -Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonia...”