Edgar Allan Poe Quotes

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Edgar Allan Poe

Profession : Poet

Birth : January 19, 1809

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

Edgar Allan Poe

In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.

Edgar Allan Poe

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.

Edgar Allan Poe

Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.

Edgar Allan Poe

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

Edgar Allan Poe

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

Edgar Allan Poe

I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.

Edgar Allan Poe

Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

Edgar Allan Poe

The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.

Edgar Allan Poe

In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.

Edgar Allan Poe

There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.

Edgar Allan Poe

To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.

Edgar Allan Poe

The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

Edgar Allan Poe

It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.

Edgar Allan Poe

I need scarcely observe that a poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul. The value of the poem is in the ratio of this elevating excitement.

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

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.

Edgar Allan Poe

The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.

Edgar Allan Poe