The Famous Quotes of Edgar Allan Poe

• "The death of a beautiful woman is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world."
• "Lord, help my poor soul."
• "Sound loves to revel near a summer night."
• "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 to-day, or the agonies which are have their origin in the ecstasies which might have been."
• "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."
• "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?"
• "With my poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in relevance; they must not - they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind."
• "And now - have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the senses? - now, I say, there came to my ears a low, dull, quick sound, such as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton. I knew that sound well, too. It was the beating of the old man's heart."
• "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream."
• "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 6,000 years ago." 
• "If you wish to forget anything upon the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered."
• "Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears."
• "And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy."
• "The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be."