Special Edgar Allan Poe Quotes About Reality

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We bring you Edgar Allan Poe quotes, in case you’ve been searching for his poetic teachings about reality in literature, beauty and life, and everything surrounding it. Edgar Allan Poe left behind a remarkable literary legacy.

About Edgar Allan Poe

The man, Edgar Allan Poe, is best known around the globe for his darkness peering long, macabre, and mysterious tales. He wrote endless poems and short stories, many of which are established literary critic classics.

His extremely celebrated works include medals like The Raven, The Tell Tale Heart, The Black Cat, and The Fall of the House of Usher, just to name a few.

He shudders at incompleteness imperfection. Though he passed in 1849, his spine-tingling stories are still hugely famous, and hundreds of thousands of his books are sold per year. 

Poe was an American author, known for his writings on imperfection and usually prefer short stories on dream night and poems. He was one of America’s first practitioners of the short story form.

His stories have a distinctively weird print on them: like life death, they were mainly stories of mystery and insight, often using the macabre, with subjects like dream day untimely burial, reanimation, slow decapitation, the effects of human decay, etc.

Edgar Allan Poe Quotes

4. “Believe nothing you hear and only one half that you see.”― Edgar Allan Poe

5. “Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore. While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, ‘Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door — Only this, and nothing more.”

Edgar Allan Poe Quotes About Love

6. Ah, Distinctly I Remember It Was in The Bleak December, And Each Separate Dying Ember Wrought Its Ghost Upon The Floor. Eagerly I Wished the Morrow; — Vainly I Had Sought to Borrow From My Books Surcease of Sorrow — Sorrow for The Lost Lenore — For the Rare and Radiant Maiden Whom the Angels Name Lenore — Nameless Here for Evermore

7. And The Silken Sad Uncertain Rustling of Each Purple Curtain Thrilled Me — Filled Me with Fantastic Terrors Never Felt Before; So that Now, to Still the Beating of My Heart, I Stood Repeating, Tis Some Visitor Entreating Entrance at My Chamber Door — Some Late Visitor Entreating Entrance at My Chamber Door; — This It Is, and Nothing More.”

8. Presently My Soul Grew Stronger; Hesitating Then No Longer, Sir,” Said I, “or Madam, Truly Your Forgiveness I Implore; But the Fact Is I Was Napping, and So Gently You Came Rapping, And so Faintly You Came Tapping, Tapping at My Chamber Door, That I Scarce Was Sure I Heard You”— Here I Opened Wide the Door; — Darkness There, and Nothing More.

9. Back Into the Chamber Turning, All My Soul Within Me Burning, Soon Again I Heard a Tapping Somewhat Louder than Before. Surely,” Said I, “surely that Is Something at My Window Lattice: Let Me See, Then, What Thereat Is, and This Mystery Explore — Let My Heart Be Still a Moment and This Mystery Explore; — ’tis the Wind and Nothing More.”

Edgar Allan Poe Love Quotes

10. Open Here I Flung the Shutter, When, with Many a Flirt and Flutter, In There Stepped a Stately Raven of The Saintly Days of Yore; Not the Least Obeisance Made He; Not a Minute Stopped or Stayed He; But, with Mien of Lord or Lady, Perched Above My Chamber Door — Perched upon A Bust of Pallas Just Above My Chamber Door — Perched, and Sat, and Nothing More.

11. Then This Ebony Bird Beguiling My Sad Fancy Into Smiling, By the Grave and Stern Decorum of The Countenance It Wore. Though Thy Crest Be Shorn and Shaven, Thou,” I Said, Tell Me What Thy Lordly Name Is on The Night’s Plutonian shore!” Quoth the Raven, “nevermore.”

12. Much I Marveled as I Stood There Wondering Fearing this Ungainly Fowl to Hear Discourse so Plainly, Though Its Answer Little Meaning— Little Relevancy Bore; — Bird or Beast upon The Sculptured Bust Above His Chamber Door, With Such Name as “nevermore.”― Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven.

Edgar Allan Poe Raven Quotes

13. “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.”― Edgar Allan Poe

14. “sleep, Those Little Slices of Death — how I Loathe Them.”― Edgar Allan Poe

15. “years of Love Have Been Forgot, in The Hatred of A Minute.” ― Edgar Allan Poe, Stories and Poems

16. “never to Suffer Would Never to Have Been Blessed.”― Edgar Allan Poe

17. “It Was Many and Many a Year Ago, In a Kingdom by The Sea, That a Maiden There Lived Whom You May Know By the Name of Annabel Lee, And This Maiden She Lived with No Other Thought Than to Love and Be Loved by Me. Edgar Allan Poe Quotes

18. I Was a Child, and She Was a Child, In This Kingdom by The Sea; I and My Annabel Lee; With a Love that The Winged Seraphs of Heaven.

20. The Angels, Not Half so Happy in Heaven, Went Envying Her and Me- Yes!- that Was the Reason (as All Men Know, In This Kingdom by The Sea) That the Wind Came out Of the Cloud by Night, Chilling and Killing My Annabel Lee.

Dark Quotes

21. 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.

22. for The Moon Never Beams without Bringing Me Dreams Of the Beautiful Annabel Lee, And the Stars Never Rise but I Feel the Bright Eyes Of the Beautiful Annabel Lee; And So, All the Night-Tide, I Lie Down by The Side Of My Darling- My Darling- My Life and My Bride, In the Sepulchre There by The Sea, In Her Tomb By The Sounding Sea.” ― Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe Quotes

23. “all Religion, My Friend, Is Simply Evolved out Of Fraud, Fear, Greed, Imagination, and Poetry.”― Edgar Allan Poe

24. “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, Tales, and Poems

25. “If You Wish to Forget Anything on The Spot, Make a Note that This Thing Is to Be Remembered.”― Edgar Allan Poe

26. “I Wish I Could Write as Mysterious as A Cat.” ― Edgar Allan Poe

27. “deep in Earth My Love Is Lying And I Must Weep Alone.” ― Edgar Allan Poe

28. “and so Being Young and Dipped in Folly I Fell in Love with Melancholy.” ― Edgar Allan Poe

29. “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

30. “I Felt that I Breathed an Atmosphere of Sorrow.” ― Edgar Allan Poe

Loss Quotes

31. “beauty of Whatever Kind, Fearing Doubting Dreaming Dreams in Its Supreme Development, Invariably Excites the Sensitive Soul to Tears.”― Edgar Allan Poe

32. “And All I Loved, I Loved Alone.” ― Edgar Allan Poe

33. “invisible Things Are the Only Realities.” ― Edgar Allan Poe, Loss of Breath

34. “Deep Into that deep Darkness peering, Long I Stood There, Wondering, Fearing, Doubting, Dreaming Dreams No Mortal Ever Dared to Dream Before.” ― Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven

35. “The True Genius Shudders at Incompleteness — Imperfection — and Usually Prefers Silence to Saying the Something Which Is Not Everything that Should Be Said.” ― Edgar Allan Poe, Marginalia

Poetry Quotes

36. Words Have No Power to Impress the Mind without The Exquisite Horror of Their Reality. Edgar Allan Poe

37. All that We See or Seem Is But A Dream Within a Dream. Edgar Allan Poe

38. I Became Insane, with Long Intervals of Horrible Sanity. Edgar Allan Poe

39. Stupidity Is a Talent for Misconception. Edgar Allan Poe

40. Science Has Not yet Taught Us if Madness Is or Is Not the Sublimity of The Intelligence. Edgar Allan Poe

41. Lord, Help My Poor Soul. Edgar Allan Poe

42. if You Wish to Forget Anything on The Spot, Make a Note that This Thing Is to Be Remembered. Edgar Allan Poe

43. with Me Poetry Has Not Been a Purpose, but A Passion. Edgar Allan Poe

44. the Death of A Beautiful Woman, Is Unquestionably the Most Poetical Topic in The World. Edgar Allan Poe

45. that Pleasure Which Is at Once the Purest, the Most Elevating and The Most Intense, Is Derived, I Maintain, from The Contemplation of The Beautiful. Edgar Allan Poe

46. the True Genius shudders at Incompleteness – and Usually Prefers Silence to Saying Something Which Is Not Everything It Should Be. Edgar Allan Poe

Rip Quotes

47. Man’s Real Life Is Happy, Chiefly Because He Is Ever Expecting that It Soon Will Be So. Edgar Allan Poe

48. of Puns It Has Been Said that Those Who Most Dislike Them Are Those Who Are Least Able to Utter Them. Edgar Allan Poe

49. that Man Is Not Truly Brave Who Is Afraid Either to Seem or To Be when It Suits Him, a Coward. Edgar Allan Poe

50. I Have, Indeed, No Abhorrence of Danger, Except in Its Absolute Effect – in Terror. Edgar Allan Poe

51. It Is the Nature of Truth in General, as Of Some Ores in Particular, to Be Richest when Most Superficial. Edgar Allan Poe

52. Experience Has Shown, and A True Philosophy Will Always Show, that A Vast, Perhaps the Larger Portion of The Truth Arises from The Seemingly Irrelevant. Edgar Allan Poe.

53. There Is Something in The Unselfish and Self-Sacrificing Love of Brute Mortals Ever Dared to Dream, Which Goes Directly to The Heart of Him Who Has Had Frequent Occasion to Test the Paltry Friendship and Gossamer Fidelity of Mere Man. Edgar Allan Poe.

54. Beauty of Whatever Kind, in Its Supreme Development, Invariably Excites the Sensitive Soul to Tears. Edgar Allan Poe

55. 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? Edgar Allan Poe

56. They Who Dream by Day Are Cognizant of Many Things Which Escape Those Who Dream only By Night. Edgar Allan Poe

Best Edgar Allan Poe Poems

57. I Would Define, in Brief, the Poetry of words as The Rhythmical Creation of Beauty. Edgar Allan Poe

58. I Have Great Faith in Fools; Self-Confidence My Friends Call It. Edgar Allan Poe

59. Once upon A Midnight Dreary, While I Pondered Weak and Weary. Edgar Allan Poe

60. All Religion, My Friend, Is Simply Evolved out Of Fraud, Fear, Greed, Imagination, and Poetry. Edgar Allan Poe

61. the Ninety and Nine Are with Dreams, Content but The Hope of The World Made New, Is the Hundredth Man Who Is Grimly Bent on Making Those Dreams Come True. Edgar Allan Poe.

62. 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

63. Were I Called on To Define, Very Briefly, the Term Art, I Should Call It ‘the Reproduction of What the Senses Perceive in Nature Through the Veil of The Soul.’ the Mere Imitation, Peering Long I Stood, However Accurate, of What Is in Nature, Entitles No Man to The Sacred Name of ‘artist.’ Edgar Allan Poe

64. to Vilify a Great Man Is the Readiest Way in Which a Little Man Can Himself Attain Greatness. Edgar Allan Poe

65. I Have No Faith in Human Perfectability. I Think that Human Exertion Will Have No Appreciable Effect upon Humanity. Man Is Now only More Active – Not Happier – nor Wiser than He Was 6000 Years Ago. Edgar Allan Poe.

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66. I Am Above the Weakness of Seeking to Establish a Sequence of Cause and Effect, Between the Disaster and The Atrocity. Edgar Allan Poe.

67. the Nose of A Mob Is Its Imagination. by This, at Any Time, It Can Be Quietly Led. Edgar Allan Poe.

68. 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

69. the Rudiment of Verse May, Possibly, Be Found in The Spondee. Edgar Allan Poe

70. It Will Be Found, in Fact, that The Ingenious Are Always Fanciful, and The Truly Imaginative Never Otherwise than Analytic. Edgar Allan Poe

71. 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

Dark Death Quotes

72. a Strong Argument for The Religion of Christ Is This – that Offenses Against Charity Are About the Only Ones Which Men on Their Death-Beds Can Be Made – Not to Understand – but To Feel – as Crime. Edgar Allan Poe

73. 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

74. The Generous Critic Fann’d the Poet’s Fire, and Taught the World with Reason to Admire. Edgar Allan Poe

75. 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

Edgar Allan Poe Famous Quotes

76. “It Is with Literature as With Law or Empire – an Established Name Is an Estate in Tenure or A Throne in Possession.”-Letter to Mr. B

Insanity Quotes

77. “It Is Clear that A Poem May Be Improperly Brief. Undue Brevity Degenerates Into Mere Epigrammatism. A Very Short Poem, While Now and Then ProDucing a Brilliant or Vivid, Never Produces a Profound or Enduring, Effect. There Must Be the Steady Pressing Down of The Stamp upon The Wax.”-The Poetic Principle.

78. “Nothing Is More Clear than That Every Plot, Worth the Name Must Be Elaborated to Its Denouement Before Anything Be Attempted with The Pen. Tends to The Development of The Intention.”-The Philosophy of Composition

79. “literature Is the Noblest 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.”-Letter to Frederick W. Thomas

80. “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 forwarding the Literature of The Country.”-Letter to Washington Poe

Dark Quotes About Love

81. “the Passions Should Be Held in Reverence: They Must Not — They Cannot at Will Be Excited, with An Eye to The Paltry Compensations, or The More Paltry Commendations, of Mankind.”-Preface, the Raven, and Other Poems

82. “beauty Is the Sole Legitimate Province of The Poem.”-The Philosophy of Composition

83. “How Many Good Books Suffer Neglect Through the Inefficiency of Their Beginnings!”-Marginalia

84. “were I Called on To Define, Very Briefly, the Term “art,” I Should Call It “the Reproduction of What the Senses Perceive in Nature Through the Veil of The Soul.” the Mere Imitation, However Accurate, of What Is in Nature, Entitles No Man to The Sacred Name of “artist”.”-Marginalia. Edgar Allan Poe Quotes.

85. “in Reading Some Books We Occupy Ourselves Chiefly with The Thoughts of The Author; in Perusing Others, Exclusively with Our Own.”-Marginalia

Poe Meaning

86. “music, when combined with A Pleasurable Idea, Is Poetry; Music without The Idea Is Simply Music; the Idea without The Music Is Prose from Its Very Definitiveness.”-Letter to Mr. B

87. “a Poem Deserves Its Title only Inasmuch as It Excites, by Elevating the Soul.”-The Poetic Principle

88. “there Are Certain Themes of Which the Interest Is All-Absorbing, but Which Are Too Entirely Horrible for The Purposes of Legitimate Fiction.”-The Premature Burial

89. “melancholy Is… the Most Legitimate of All the Poetical Tones.”-The Philosophy of Composition

Dying Quotes

90. “deep in Earth My Love Is Lying And I Must Weep Alone.”-A Couplet

91. “to Die Laughing Must Be the Most Glorious of All-Glorious Deaths!”-The Assignation

92. “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 Premature Burial

93. “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.”-Lenore

94. “thank Heaven! the Crisis—the Danger Is Past, and The Lingering Illness, Is Over at Last—and the Fever Called “living,” Is Conquered at Last.”-For Annie

95. “sleep, Those Little Slices of Death — how I Loathe Them.”-Attributed, Survival

Quotes on Death

96. “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

97. by What Eternal Streams.”-To One in Paradise.

98. “arousing from The Most Profound of Slumbers, We Break the Gossamer Web of Some Dream. yet In a Second Afterward, (so Frail May that Web Have Been) We Remember Not that We Have Dreamed.”-The Pit and The Pendulum. Edgar Allan Poe Quotes

99. “yet Mad I Am Not… and Very Surely Do I Not Dream.”-The Black Cat

Love Death Quotes

100. “we Loved with A Love that Was More than Love love… with A Love that The Winged Seraphs of Heaven Coveted Her and Me.”-Annabel Lee

101. “there Is Something in The Unselfish and Self-Sacrificing Love of A Brute, Which Goes Directly to The tell tale heart of Him Who Has Had Frequent Occasion to Test the Paltry Friendship and Gossamer Fidelity of Mere Man.”-The Black Cat

102. “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.

103. “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.”-Letter to Sarah Helen Whitman. Edgar Allan Poe Quotes.

104. “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

105. “the Most Natural, And, Consequently, the Truest and Most Intense of The Human Affections Are Those Which Arise in The Heart as If by Electric Sympathy.”-The Spectacles.

106. “Love Like Mine Can Never Be Gotten Over.”-Letter to Maria Clemm

Quotes About Death and Love

107. “o, Human Love! Thou Spirit Given, On Earth, of All We Hope in Heaven!”-Tamerlane.

108. “I Was Never Really Insane Except upon Occasions Where My Heart Was Touched.”-Letter to Maria Clemm

109. “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 Wreathed with Fairy Fruits and Flowers, And All the Flowers Were Mine.”-To One in Paradise.

110. “and so Being Young and Dipped in Folly I Fell in Love with Melancholy.”-Romance

111. “that Which You Mistake for Madness Is but An Over Acuteness of The Senses”-The Tell-Tale Heart

Mysterious Quotes

112. “From Childhood’s Hour, I Have Not Been As Others Were—i Have Not Seen As Others Saw—i Could Not Bring My Passions from A Common Spring.”-Alone

113. “although I Saw that The Features of Ligeia Were Not of A Classic Regularity—although I Perceived that Her Loveliness Was Indeed ‘exquisite,’ and Felt that There Was Much of ‘strangeness’ Pervading It, yet I Have Tried in Vain to Detect the Irregularity and To Trace Home My Own Perception of ‘the Strange.’”-Ligeia

114. “It was a Freak of Fancy in My Friend… to Be Enamored of The Night for Her Own Sake; and Into This Bizarrerie, as Into All His Others, I Quietly Fell; Giving Myself up To His Wild Whims with A Perfect Abandon.”-The Murders in The Rue Morgue

115. “decorum – that Bug-Bear Which Deters so Many from Bliss until The Opportunity for Bliss Has Forever Gone By.”-The Spectacles

I Became Insane with Long Intervals of Horrible Sanity

116. “the Customs of The World Are so Many Conventional Follies.”-The Spectacles

117. “either the Memory of Past Bliss Is the Anguish of Today or The Agonies Which Have Their Origin in The Ecstasies Which Might Have Been.”-Berenice

118. “if You Wish to Forget Anything on The Spot, Make a Note that This Thing Is to Be Remembered.”-Marginalia

119. “to Observe Attentively Is to Remember Distinctly.”-The Murders in The Rue Morgue. Edgar Allan Poe Quotes.

120. “that Man Is Not Truly Brave Who Is Afraid Either to Seem or To Be, when It Suits Him, a Coward.”-Marginalia

Edgar Allen Poe Quotes

121. “beauty of Whatever Kind, in Its Supreme Development, Invariably Excites the Sensitive Soul to Tears.”-The Philosophy of Composition

122. “The True Genius Shudders at Incompleteness – Imperfection – and Usually Prefers Silence to Saying the Something Which Is Not Everything that Should Be Said.”-Marginalia

123. “in our endeavors to recall to memory something long forgotten, we often find ourselves upon the very verge of remembrance, without being able, in the end, to remember.”-ligeia

124. “convinced Myself, I Seek Not to Convince.”-Berenice

125. “whether People Grow Fat by Joking, or Whether There Is Something in Fat Itself Which Predisposes to A Joke, I Have Never Been Quite Able to Determine…”-Hop-Frog

126. “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.”-the mystery of marie roget

127. “Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die”-Edgar Allan Poe

128. “Yet mad I am not…and very surely do I not dream”-Edgar Allan Poe

129. “To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary–Edgar Allan Poe

130. “Even in the grave, all is not lost.” – Edgar Allan Poe

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