50 Edgar Allan Poe Quotes That Will Motivate You

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50 Best Edgar Allan Poe Quotes

1. “How many good books suffer neglect through the inefficiency of their beginnings!” – Edgar Allan Poe

2. “Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortals ever dared to dream before.” – Edgar Allan Poe

3. “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.” – Edgar Allan Poe

4. “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.” – Edgar Allan Poe

5. “All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.” – Edgar Allan Poe

6. “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 by what eternal streams.” – Edgar Allan Poe

7. “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.” – Edgar Allan Poe

8. “Thou wast that all to me, love, for which my soul did pine.” – Edgar Allan Poe

9. “Ever yet was blest with seeing bird above his chamber door Bird or beast upon the sculptured bust above his chamber door, With such name as ‘Nevermore.'” – Edgar Allan Poe

10. “Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now.” – Edgar Allan Poe

11. “Yet if hope has flown away in a night, or in a day, in a vision, or in none, is it therefore the less gone?” – Edgar Allan Poe

12. “O, human love! Thou spirit given, on Earth, of all we hope in Heaven!” – Edgar Allan Poe

13. “And so being young and dipt in folly, I fell in love with melancholy.” – Edgar Allan Poe

14. “Deep in earth my love is lying and I must weep alone.” – Edgar Allan Poe

15. “Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.” – Edgar Allan Poe

16. “Sleep, those little slices of death how I loathe them.” – Edgar Allan Poe

17. “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

18. “In reading some books we occupy ourselves chiefly with the thoughts of the author; in perusing others, exclusively with our own.” – Edgar Allan Poe

19. “To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!” – Edgar Allan Poe

20. “A very short poem, while now and then producing a brilliant or vivid, never produces a profound or enduring, effect.” – Edgar Allan Poe

21. “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.” – Edgar Allan Poe

22. “Undue brevity degenerates into mere epigrammatism.” – Edgar Allan Poe

23. “Beauty is the sole legitimate province of the poem.” – Edgar Allan Poe

24. “Literature is the most noble 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.” – Edgar Allan Poe

25. “What a flood of new feelings gushed upon my soul, as I laid down the billet, and lifted my filial eyes to Heaven! Mother endearing name!” – Edgar Allan Poe

26. “My sorrow; I could not awaken my heart to joy at the same tone.” – Edgar Allan Poe

27. “Leave my loneliness unbroken.” – Edgar Allan Poe

28. “Fill with mingled cream and amber, I will drain that glass again. Such hilarious visions clamber through the chamber of my brain.” – Edgar Allan Poe

29. “Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore…” – Edgar Allan Poe

30. “Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made.” – Edgar Allan Poe

31. “It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain; but once conceived, it haunted me day and night.” – Edgar Allan Poe

32. “We loved with a love that was more than love… With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven coveted her and me.” – Edgar Allan Poe

33. “Art is to look at not to criticize.” – Edgar Allan Poe

34. “Yet mad I am not and very surely do I not dream.” – Edgar Allan Poe

35. “I was never really insane except upon occasions where my heart was touched.” – Edgar Allan Poe

36. “That which you mistake for madness is but an over acuteness of the senses.” – Edgar Allan Poe

37. “Decorum that bug-bear which deters so many from bliss until the opportunity for bliss has forever gone by.” – Edgar Allan Poe

38. “Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.” – Edgar Allan Poe

39. “Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.” – Edgar Allan Poe

40. “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

41. “The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.” – Edgar Allan Poe

42. “And all I loved, I loved alone.” – Edgar Allan Poe

43. “There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.” – Edgar Allan Poe

44. “Melancholy is thus the most legitimate of all the poetical tones.” – Edgar Allan Poe

45. “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

46. “Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.” – Edgar Allan Poe

47. “Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.” – Edgar Allan Poe

48. “Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.” – Edgar Allan Poe

49. “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

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

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