Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe Famous Quotes & Sayings
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![Edgar Allan Poe quotes: It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial. Edgar Allan Poe quotes: It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/edgar-allan-poe-quotes-1614116.jpg)
![Edgar Allan Poe quotes: The pioneers and missionaries of religion have been the real cause of more trouble and war than all other classes of mankind. Edgar Allan Poe quotes: The pioneers and missionaries of religion have been the real cause of more trouble and war than all other classes of mankind.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/edgar-allan-poe-quotes-1086346.jpg)
![Edgar Allan Poe quotes: The winters in the latitude of Sullivan's Island are seldom very severe, and in the fall of the year it is a rare event indeed Edgar Allan Poe quotes: The winters in the latitude of Sullivan's Island are seldom very severe, and in the fall of the year it is a rare event indeed](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/edgar-allan-poe-quotes-775764.jpg)
![Edgar Allan Poe quotes: Even for those to whom life and death are equal jests. There are some things that are still held in respect. Edgar Allan Poe quotes: Even for those to whom life and death are equal jests. There are some things that are still held in respect.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/edgar-allan-poe-quotes-1047717.jpg)
![Edgar Allan Poe quotes: Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant. Edgar Allan Poe quotes: Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/edgar-allan-poe-quotes-423832.jpg)
![Edgar Allan Poe quotes: Children are never too tender to be whipped. Like tough beefsteaks, the more you beat them, the more tender they become. Edgar Allan Poe quotes: Children are never too tender to be whipped. Like tough beefsteaks, the more you beat them, the more tender they become.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/edgar-allan-poe-quotes-362540.jpg)
![Edgar Allan Poe quotes: For years your name never passed my lips, while my soul drank in, with a delirious thirst, all that was uttered in my presence respecting you ... Edgar Allan Poe quotes: For years your name never passed my lips, while my soul drank in, with a delirious thirst, all that was uttered in my presence respecting you ...](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/edgar-allan-poe-quotes-423458.jpg)
![Edgar Allan Poe quotes: I went as a passenger, having no other inducement than a kind of nervous restlessness which haunted me as a fiend Edgar Allan Poe quotes: I went as a passenger, having no other inducement than a kind of nervous restlessness which haunted me as a fiend](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/edgar-allan-poe-quotes-1217787.jpg)
![Edgar Allan Poe quotes: 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 quotes: In criticism, I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/edgar-allan-poe-quotes-1715415.jpg)
![Edgar Allan Poe quotes: I have made no money. I am as poor now as ever I was in my life - except in hope, which is by no means bankable. Edgar Allan Poe quotes: I have made no money. I am as poor now as ever I was in my life - except in hope, which is by no means bankable.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/edgar-allan-poe-quotes-1121197.jpg)
![Edgar Allan Poe quotes: Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them. Edgar Allan Poe quotes: Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/edgar-allan-poe-quotes-721143.jpg)
![Edgar Allan Poe quotes: Actually, I do have doubts, all the time. Any thinking person does. There are so many sides to every question. Edgar Allan Poe quotes: Actually, I do have doubts, all the time. Any thinking person does. There are so many sides to every question.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/edgar-allan-poe-quotes-2073334.jpg)
![Edgar Allan Poe quotes: There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction. Edgar Allan Poe quotes: There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/edgar-allan-poe-quotes-785273.jpg)
![Edgar Allan Poe quotes: There lives no man who at some period has not been tormented, for example, by an earnest desire to tantalize a listener by circumlocution. Edgar Allan Poe quotes: There lives no man who at some period has not been tormented, for example, by an earnest desire to tantalize a listener by circumlocution.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/edgar-allan-poe-quotes-2100215.jpg)
![Edgar Allan Poe quotes: In his opinion the powers of the intellect held intimate connection with the capabilities of the stomach. Edgar Allan Poe quotes: In his opinion the powers of the intellect held intimate connection with the capabilities of the stomach.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/edgar-allan-poe-quotes-2134085.jpg)
![Edgar Allan Poe quotes: Enough," he said; "the cough is a mere nothing; it will not kill me. I shall not die of a cough." "True - true," I replied; Edgar Allan Poe quotes: Enough," he said; "the cough is a mere nothing; it will not kill me. I shall not die of a cough." "True - true," I replied;](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/edgar-allan-poe-quotes-1273755.jpg)
![Edgar Allan Poe quotes: Every moment of the nightForever changing placesAnd they put out the star-lightWith the breath from their pale faces Edgar Allan Poe quotes: Every moment of the nightForever changing placesAnd they put out the star-lightWith the breath from their pale faces](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/edgar-allan-poe-quotes-2148052.jpg)
Forever changing places
And they put out the star-light
With the breath from their pale faces
![Edgar Allan Poe quotes: It is with literature as with law or empire - an established name is an estate in tenure, or a throne in possession. Edgar Allan Poe quotes: It is with literature as with law or empire - an established name is an estate in tenure, or a throne in possession.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/edgar-allan-poe-quotes-1142501.jpg)
![Edgar Allan Poe quotes: The look on his face frightened me terribly, but at the same time I was pleased not to be alone any more. Edgar Allan Poe quotes: The look on his face frightened me terribly, but at the same time I was pleased not to be alone any more.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/edgar-allan-poe-quotes-1331753.jpg)
![Edgar Allan Poe quotes: As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all. Edgar Allan Poe quotes: As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/edgar-allan-poe-quotes-2071100.jpg)
![Edgar Allan Poe quotes: Mimes in the form of God on high mutter and mumble low and hither and tither fly, mere puppets they who come and go. Edgar Allan Poe quotes: Mimes in the form of God on high mutter and mumble low and hither and tither fly, mere puppets they who come and go.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/edgar-allan-poe-quotes-1539599.jpg)
![Edgar Allan Poe quotes: 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 quotes: 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.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/edgar-allan-poe-quotes-1600156.jpg)
![Edgar Allan Poe quotes: [The daguerreotype] itself must undoubtedly be regarded as the most important, and perhaps the most extraordinary triumph of modern science. Edgar Allan Poe quotes: [The daguerreotype] itself must undoubtedly be regarded as the most important, and perhaps the most extraordinary triumph of modern science.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/edgar-allan-poe-quotes-2067828.jpg)
![Edgar Allan Poe quotes: Decorum that bug-bear which deters so many from bliss until the opportunity for bliss has forever gone by. Edgar Allan Poe quotes: Decorum that bug-bear which deters so many from bliss until the opportunity for bliss has forever gone by.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/edgar-allan-poe-quotes-2050433.jpg)
that bug-bear which deters so many from bliss until the opportunity for bliss has forever gone by.
![Edgar Allan Poe quotes: We gave him a hearty welcome, for there was nearly half as much of the entertaining as of the contemptible about the man.. Edgar Allan Poe quotes: We gave him a hearty welcome, for there was nearly half as much of the entertaining as of the contemptible about the man..](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/edgar-allan-poe-quotes-2020817.jpg)
![Edgar Allan Poe quotes: Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day; or the agonies which are have their origins in ecstasies which might have been. Edgar Allan Poe quotes: Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day; or the agonies which are have their origins in ecstasies which might have been.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/edgar-allan-poe-quotes-1851313.jpg)
![Edgar Allan Poe quotes: 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. Edgar Allan Poe quotes: 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.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/edgar-allan-poe-quotes-419093.jpg)
![Edgar Allan Poe quotes: Villains!' I shrieked. 'Dissemble no more! I admit the deed! Tear up the planks! Here, here! It is the beating of his hideous heart! Edgar Allan Poe quotes: Villains!' I shrieked. 'Dissemble no more! I admit the deed! Tear up the planks! Here, here! It is the beating of his hideous heart!](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/edgar-allan-poe-quotes-353707.jpg)
![Edgar Allan Poe quotes: And then there stole into my fancy, like a rich musical note, the thought of what sweet rest there must be in the grave. Edgar Allan Poe quotes: And then there stole into my fancy, like a rich musical note, the thought of what sweet rest there must be in the grave.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/edgar-allan-poe-quotes-347479.jpg)
![Edgar Allan Poe quotes: It is evident that we are hurrying onward to some exciting knowledge - some never-to-be-imparted secret, whose attainment is destruction. Edgar Allan Poe quotes: It is evident that we are hurrying onward to some exciting knowledge - some never-to-be-imparted secret, whose attainment is destruction.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/edgar-allan-poe-quotes-326696.jpg)
![Edgar Allan Poe quotes: In reading some books we occupy ourselves chiefly with the thoughts of the author; in perusing others, exclusively with our own. Edgar Allan Poe quotes: In reading some books we occupy ourselves chiefly with the thoughts of the author; in perusing others, exclusively with our own.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/edgar-allan-poe-quotes-199072.jpg)
![Edgar Allan Poe quotes: It was well said of a certain German book that 'er lasst sich nicht lesen" - it does not permit itself to be read. Edgar Allan Poe quotes: It was well said of a certain German book that 'er lasst sich nicht lesen" - it does not permit itself to be read.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/edgar-allan-poe-quotes-176931.jpg)
![Edgar Allan Poe quotes: I call to mind flatness and dampness; and then all is madness - the madness of a memory which busies itself among forbidden things. Edgar Allan Poe quotes: I call to mind flatness and dampness; and then all is madness - the madness of a memory which busies itself among forbidden things.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/edgar-allan-poe-quotes-63296.jpg)
![Edgar Allan Poe quotes: When the Hours flew brightly by And not a cloud obscured the sky, My soul, lest it should truant be, Thy grace did guide to thine and Edgar Allan Poe quotes: When the Hours flew brightly by And not a cloud obscured the sky, My soul, lest it should truant be, Thy grace did guide to thine and](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/edgar-allan-poe-quotes-1067970.jpg)
![Edgar Allan Poe quotes: In the Heaven's above, the angels, whispering to one another, can find, among their burning terms of love, none so devotional as that of 'Mother. Edgar Allan Poe quotes: In the Heaven's above, the angels, whispering to one another, can find, among their burning terms of love, none so devotional as that of 'Mother.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/edgar-allan-poe-quotes-894356.jpg)