Top 100 Edgar Allan Quotes
#1. I briefly considered doing Edgar Allan Poe and just swearing a lot.
Andy Richter
#2. When I first started reading poetry, all the poets I read - Edgar Allan Poe, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Greenleaf Whittier - were rhyme poets. That's what captured me.
Marv Levy
#3. Mervyn Peake is a finer poet than Edgar Allan Poe, and he is therefore able to maintain his world of fantasy brilliantly through three novels. It (Gormenghast trilogy) is a very, very great work ... a classic of our age.
Mervyn Peake
#4. Yes, it would nice for this fifty year period, this cradle of all vampire short stories in the English language, to include a vampire tale by Edgar Allan Poe. But the sad answer is that Poe never penned a vampire story.
Andrew Barger
#5. The raven of Edgar Allan Poe has a halo that he extinguishes from time to time
("Spanish Generosity")
Max Jacob
#6. My favorite poem ever was 'Annabel Lee' by Edgar Allan Poe.
Ross Lynch
#7. His knowledge of ancient Greece was based entirely on a poem Edgar Allan Poe, a few homosexual encounters with restaurateurs (he ate free at almost every soda fountain in the city), and a plaster reproduction of the Akropolis which, for some reason, he had coated with red nail polish.
Leonard Cohen
#8. [Cat] found a complete set of the works of Edgar Allan Poe, with little tabs of paper sticking out. The were scrawled over with the witch's comments to herself, "Fun!" "Try this, but with exploding feathers!" and "Gotta love him
deeply sick.
Gregory Maguire
#9. No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce.
H.P. Lovecraft
#10. Arms are around me, hands in my hair, lips moving across my cheek, over my neck, and I'm thinking about poetry, about Edgar Allan Poe and words that move like waves, people who move like waves together, and all the non-words we can make with our bodies.
Julie Cross
#11. He was the last person I expected to find on the Rushes' front porch. Well, okay. Maybe no the last. That title most likely belonged to the Queen of England or the reanimated corpse of Edgar Allan Poe.
Kody Keplinger
#12. I always thought it would be really, really cool to play Edgar Allan Poe, because when I was a kid, he was one of the authors who really blew my mind open to all sorts of weird dark and twisted places.
Ezra Miller
#13. It was all Mrs. Waddington could do to refrain from hurling a bust of Edgar Allan Poe at her head.
P.G. Wodehouse
#14. I made use of the college library by borrowing books other than scientific books, such as all of the plays by George Bernard Shaw, the writing of Edgar Allan Poe. The college library helped me to develop a broader aspect on life.
Linus Pauling
#15. I've been influenced by poets as diverse as Dylan Thomas, Lewis Carroll, and Edgar Allan Poe.
Jack Prelutsky
#16. Lovecraft was an atheist. Edgar Allan Poe was sort of a half-assed transcendentalist. And Hawthorne was only conventionally religious.
Stephen King
#17. The poet Edgar Allan Poe described the false awakening phenomenon long before Carl Jung was born. He wrote, 'All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.' Have I answered your question?
Stephen King
#18. Edgar Allan Poe is considered the great writer of horror stories, perhaps the greatest - I will say the greatest
William Friedkin
#19. I've named a couple things after Edgar Allan Poe: the cat, and my garden upstate, where I only planted black flowers and purple flowers - and there's a raven statue.
Hilarie Burton
#20. The sky was the color of Edgar Allan Poe's pajamas.
Tom Robbins
#21. It would be easier to separate salt from the seas than Edgar Allan Poe's influence from our literature.
Andrew Barger
#22. The actual American childhood is less Norman Rockwell and Walt Disney than Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe.
Susan Cheever
#23. Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allan Poe.
John Lennon
#24. If there was ever a dissenter from the national optimismit was surely Edgar Allan Poe
without question the bravest and mostoriginal, if perhaps also the least orderly and judicious, of all the critics that we have produced.
H.L. Mencken
#25. If I'm too old to be Emo, how do you account for the very Emo and very old Edgar Allan Poe? Checkmate!
John Green
#26. It was a story by Edgar Allan Poe"
"I didn't know the Teletubbies had first names ...
Mike A. Lancaster
#27. Edgar Allan Poe's writings showed me perfectly that there can be such fragile beauty and purity located in darkness and sorrow.
Nicholas Trandahl
#28. I was born on the same day as Edgar Allan Poe and Dolly Parton: January 19. I am absolutely certain that this affects my writing in some way.
Eden Robinson
#29. Edgar Allan Poe, an earlier UVA student, once complained in a letter that his stepfather spoke to him as if Poe were one of the black slaves; some of the students at UVA surely felt the same about being told what to do by faculty.
Matthew Pearl
#30. You remind me of Edgar Allan Poe's Dupin. I had no idea that such individuals did exist out of stories.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#31. Wasn't he the one who sliced off his ear and mailed it to his girlfriend?"
"Van Gogh," said Varen, in a monotone that suggested he might be in pain.
"Van Gogh," Gwen said, leaning away, waving the apple. "Edgar Allan Poe. Close enough!
Kelly Creagh
#32. I was warped early by Ray Bradbury and Edgar Allan Poe. I was very fond of Franz Kafka.
Margaret Atwood
#33. I would say that Edgar Allan Poe, [Georges] Perec, Thomas Pynchon, and [Jorge Luis] Borges are all boy-writers. These are writers who take ... a kind of demonic joy in writing.
Paul Auster
#34. I love writing literary stuff. My favorite writer is definitely Edgar Allan Poe - so imaginative and prolific. My second favorite writer would have to be Shakespeare - I love the emotion and human truths he touches on so beautifully.
MC Lars
#35. All we see or seem is but a dream within a dream...," Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe
#36. My English teachers gave me a copy of Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale' when I left high school, which has always been very special to me - it was the novel that introduced me to dystopian fiction. I'm also influenced by Edgar Allan Poe, Dickens, John Wyndham and Middle English dream-visions.
Samantha Shannon
#37. By 'scientifiction' I mean the Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, and Edgar Allan Poe type of story-a charming romance intermingled with scientific fact and prophetic vision
Hugo Gernsback
#38. Detective fiction could not have existed without Edgar Allan Poe.
Giles Foden
#39. Literature has been part of my life for as long as I can remember. I can't think back before a time that I didn't love writing and reading. When I was really young, my mother would read poems to me. I loved Edgar Allan Poe - I am sure I didn't understand it, but I loved it.
Alexandra Adornetto
#40. If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully express the pent-up violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average family.
Quentin Crisp
#41. The modern story begun, one might say, with Edgar Allan Poe, which proceeds inexorably, like a machine destined to accomplish its mission with the maximum economy of means.
Julio Cortazar
#42. Ear 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." Dupin in "The Mystery of Marie Roget
Edgar Allan Poe
#43. all the night-tide, I lie down by the side Of my darling - my darling - my life and my bride, In her sepulchre there by the sea - In her tomb by the side of the sea.
Edgar Allan Poe
#46. 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.
Edgar Allan Poe
#47. I hold that a long poem does not exist. I maintain that the phrase, "a long poem," is simply a flat contradiction in terms.
Edgar Allan Poe
#48. The viol, the violet, and the vine.
Resignedly beneath the sky
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#49. If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human sentiment ...
Edgar Allan Poe
#50. And his brow was lofty with thought, and his eye wild with care; and, in the few furrows upon his cheek I read the fables of sorrow, and weariness, and disgust with mankind, and a longing after solitude.
Edgar Allan Poe
#51. As I imagined, the ship proves to be in a current; if that appellation can properly be given to a tide, which, howling and shrieking by the white ice, thunders on to the southward with a velocity like the headlong dashing of a cataract.
Edgar Allan Poe
#52. Thine image and--a name--a name!
Two separate--yet most intimate things.
Edgar Allan Poe
#53. His heart is a suspended lute; As soon as you touch it, it resonates.
Edgar Allan Poe
#54. There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction.
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#55. The greater amount of truth is impulsively uttered; thus the greater amount is spoken, not written.
Edgar Allan Poe
#56. The usual derivation of the word Metaphysics is not to be sustainedthe science is supposed to take its name from its superiority to physics. The truth is, that Aristotle's treatise on Morals is next in succession to his Book of Physics.
Edgar Allan Poe
#57. But it is a trait in the perversity of human nature to reject the obvious and the ready, for the far-distant and equivocal.
Edgar Allan Poe
#58. The truth is, I am heartily sick of this life & of the nineteenth century in general. (I am convinced that every thing is going wrong.)
Edgar Allan Poe
#60. A poem in my opinion, is opposed to a work of science by having for its immediate object, pleasure, not truth.
Edgar Allan Poe
#61. Art was, for Poe, the only method by which one could penetrate the shapeless empirical world in the search for order, and
Edgar Allan Poe
#62. If we examine a work of ordinary art, by means of a powerful microscope, all traces of resemblance to nature will disappear - but the closest scrutiny of the photogenic drawing discloses only a more absolute truth, a more perfect identity of aspect with the thing represented.
Edgar Allan Poe
#63. The death then of a beautiful woman is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world, and equally is it beyond doubt that the lips best suited for such topic are those of a bereaved lover.
Edgar Allan Poe
#65. And, though my faith be broken,
And, though my heart be broken,
Here is a ring, as token
That I am happy now!
Edgar Allan Poe
#66. The want of an international Copy-Right Law, by rendering it nearly impossible to obtain anything from the booksellers in the wayof remuneration for literary labor, has had the effect of forcing many of our very best writers into the service of the Magazines and Reviews.
Edgar Allan Poe
#67. The Romans worshipped their standard; and the Roman standard happened to be an eagle. Our standard is only one tenth of an eagle,
a dollar, but we make all even by adoring it with tenfold devotion.
Edgar Allan Poe
#68. You call it hope - that fire of fire!
It is but agony of desire.
Edgar Allan Poe
#69. Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
Edgar Allan Poe
#70. It is a happiness to wonder;
it is a happiness to dream.
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#71. I could have clasped the red walls to my bosom as a garment of eternal peace. "Death," I said, "any death but that of the pit!" Fool! might I have not known that into the pit it was the object of the burning iron to urge me?
Edgar Allan Poe
#72. I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.
Edgar Allan Poe
#73. The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.
Edgar Allan Poe
#74. Lo! 'tis a gala night
Within the lonesome latter years!
An angel throng, bewinged, bedight
In veils, and drowned in tears,
Sit in a theatre, to see
A play of hopes and fears [ ... ]
Edgar Allan Poe
#75. 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
#76. By undue profundity, we perplex and enfeeble thought; and it is possible to make even Venus herself vanish from the firmament by a scrutiny too sustained, too concentrated, or too direct.
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
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#77. In death - no! even in the grave all is not lost. Else there is no immortality for man. Arousing from the most profound 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.
Edgar Allan Poe
#78. Men of genius are far more abundant than is supposed. In fact, to appreciate thoroughly the work of what we call genius, is to possess all the genius by which the work was produced.
Edgar Allan Poe
#79. Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
Edgar Allan Poe
#80. To see distinctly the machinery
the wheels and pinions
of any work of Art is, unquestionably, of itself, a pleasure, but one which we are able to enjoy only just in proportion as we do not enjoy the legitimate effect designed by the artist.
Edgar Allan Poe
#81. How is it that from beauty I have derived a type of unloveliness? - from the covenant of peace a simile of sorrow? But as, in ethics, evil is a consequence of good, so, in fact, out of joy is sorrow born.
Edgar Allan Poe
#83. And so, all the night-tide, I lay down the side, of my darling, my darling, my life and my bride, in the sepulchre there by the sea, in her tomb by the surrounding sea.
Edgar Allan Poe
#85. Scorching my seared heart with a pain, not hell shall make me fear again.
Edgar Allan Poe
#86. 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.
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#87. A dirge for her the doubly dead in that she died so young.
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#88. The mass of the people regard as profound only him who suggests pungent contradictions of the general idea. In ratiocination, not less than in literature, it is the epigram which is the most immediately and the most universally appreciated. In both, it is of the lowest order of merit.
Edgar Allan Poe
#89. There is no exquisite beauty ... without some strangeness in the proportion.
Edgar Allan Poe
#90. But Psyche uplifting her finger said: Sadly this star I mistrust
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#91. In spite of the air of fablethe public were still not at all disposed to receive it as fable. I thence concluded that the facts of my narrative would prove of such a nature as to carry with them sufficient evidence of their own authenticity.
Edgar Allan Poe
#92. Mimes in the form of God on high mutter and mumble low and hither and tither fly, mere puppets they who come and go.
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#93. As for Republicanism, no analogy could be found for it upon the face of the earth - unless we except the case of the "prairie dogs," an exception which seems to demonstrate, if anything, that democracy is a very admirable form of government - for dogs.
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#94. I heed not that my earthly lot Hath - little of Earth in it - That years of love have been forgot In the hatred of a minute: - I mourn not that the desolate Are happier, sweet, than I, But that you sorrow for my fate Who am a passer by.
Edgar Allan Poe
#95. I have not only labored solely for the benefit of others (receiving for myself a miserable pittance), but have been forced to model my thoughts at the will of men whose imbecility was evident to all but themselves
Edgar Allan Poe
#96. The past is a pebble in my shoe.
Poe
#97. There might be a class of beings, human once, but now to humanity invisible, for whose scrutiny, and for whose refined appreciation of the beautiful, more especially than for our own, had been set in order by God the great landscape-garden of the whole earth.
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#98. Have been sufficient to establish its real character. Indeed, however
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#99. All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
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#100. Ah, Death, the spectre which sate at all feasts! How often, Monos, did we lose ourselves in speculations upon its nature! How mysteriously did it act as a check to human bliss - saying unto it thus far, and no farther!
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