Quotes by Edgar Allan Poe

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.

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

If it is meant for you, you won't have to beg for it. You will never have to sacrifice your dignity for your destiny.

Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.

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 more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.

Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

All that we see or seem,
Is but a dream within a dream.

Those who dream by day are are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.