Edgar Allan Poe

“Trust to the fickle star within.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

“Düş görmek bir mutluluktur.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

Yes," I said, "for the love of God!

— Edgar Allan Poe

Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries

— Edgar Allan Poe

To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.

— Edgar Allan Poe

“...madness is no comfortable feeling.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

“Nemo impune me lacessit!!”

— Edgar Allan Poe

Invisible things are the only realities.

— Edgar Allan Poe

The goodness of the true pun is in direct ratio to its intolerability

— Edgar Allan Poe

A poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul.

— Edgar Allan Poe

We love with a love that was more than love.

— Edgar Allan Poe

But Psyche uplifting her finger said: Sadly this star I mistrust

— Edgar Allan Poe

“The most expuisite beauty has strangeness in its proportions..." Ligeia”

— Edgar Allan Poe

A wise man hears one word and understands two.

— Edgar Allan Poe

“You are rich, respected, admired, beloved; you are happy, as once I was. ”

— Edgar Allan Poe

“Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

We had always dwelled together, beneath a tropical sun, in the Valley of the Many Colored Grass.

— Edgar Allan Poe

For years your name never passed my lips, while my soul drank in, with a delirious thirst, all that was uttered in…

— Edgar Allan Poe

Villains!' I shrieked. 'Dissemble no more! I admit the deed! Tear up the planks! Here, here! It is the beating of his…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“And boyhood is a summer sun / Whose waning is the dreariest one-- / For all we live to know is known,…

— Edgar Allan Poe

Thank Heaven! The crisis /The danger is past, and the lingering illness, is over at last /, and the fever called ''Living''…

— Edgar Allan Poe

In reading some books we occupy ourselves chiefly with the thoughts of the author; in perusing others, exclusively with our own.

— Edgar Allan Poe

Believe me, there exists no such dilemma as that in which a gentleman is placed when he is forced to reply to…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“A enorme multiplicação de livros, de todos os ramos do conhecimento, é um dos maiores males de nossa época.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

The mental features discoursed of as the analytical, are, in themselves, but little susceptible of analysis. We appreciate them only in their…

— Edgar Allan Poe

In other words, I believed, and still do believe, that truth, is frequently of its own essence, superficial, and that, in many…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“I had arrived at that well-known portion of the story where Ethelred, the hero of the Trist, having sought in vain for…

— Edgar Allan Poe

One half of the pleasure experienced at a theatre arises from the spectator's sympathy with the rest of the audience, and, especially…

— Edgar Allan Poe

The unity of effect or impression is a point of the greatest importance. It is clear, moreover, that this unity cannot be…

— Edgar Allan Poe

In the tale proper--where there is no space for development of character or for great profusion and variety of incident--mere construction is,…

— Edgar Allan Poe

I never can hear a crowd of people singing and gesticulating, all together, at an Italian opera, without fancying myself at Athens,…

— Edgar Allan Poe

Let us dismiss, as irrelevant to the poem per se, the circumstance ... which, in the first place, gave rise to the…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“We have a task before us which must be speedily performed. We know that it will be ruinous to make delay. The…

— Edgar Allan Poe

...for the question is of will, and not, as the insanity of logic has assumed of power. It is not that the…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“The faculty of re-solution is possibly much invigorated by mathematical study, and especially by that highest branch of it which, unjustly, and…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“The Conqueror Worm Lo! 'tis a gala night Within the lonesome latter years! An angel throng, bewinged, bedight In veils, and drowned…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“– a narrative, let me here say, which, in its latter portions, will be found to include incidents of a nature so…

— Edgar Allan Poe

One morning, in cool blood, I slipped a noose about its neck and hung it to the limb of a tree; —…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling, By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore. Though…

— Edgar Allan Poe

Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer Swung by Seraphim whose footfalls tinkled on the tufted floor. "Wretch,"…

— Edgar Allan Poe