Poetry Quotes by Edgar Allan Poe

Quote the raven nevermore.

— Edgar Allan Poe

To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.

— Edgar Allan Poe

Beauty is the sole legitimate province of the poem.

— Edgar Allan Poe

The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.

— Edgar Allan Poe

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

— Edgar Allan Poe

A fool, for example, thinks Shakespeare a great poet . . . yet the fool has never read Shakespeare.

— Edgar Allan Poe

Boston: Their hotels are bad. Their pumpkin pies are delicious. Their poetry is not so good.

— Edgar Allan Poe

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

— Edgar Allan Poe

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

— Edgar Allan Poe

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

— Edgar Allan Poe

Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.

— Edgar Allan Poe

“For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And the stars never rise but i feel…

— Edgar Allan Poe

Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is…

— 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

“The esteemed Reverend Rufus Griswold is everything I aspire to be, though I fear I shall never soar so quite as high…

— Edgar Allan Poe

A poem in my opinion, is opposed to a work of science by having for its immediate object, pleasure, not truth.

— Edgar Allan Poe

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

I hold that a long poem does not exist. I maintain that the phrase, "a long poem," is simply a flat contradiction…

— Edgar Allan Poe

I need scarcely observe that a poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul. The value of…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“Not altogether a fool," said G., "but then he's a poet, which I take to be only one remove from a fool."…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“Dreams! in their vivid coloring of life, As in that fleeting, shadowy, misty strife Of semblance with reality, which brings To the…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“I have not always been as now: The fever'd diadem on my brow I claim'd and won unsurprisingly- Hath not the same…

— Edgar Allan Poe

The word "Verse" is used here as the term most convenient for expressing, and without pedantry, all that is involved in the…

— Edgar Allan Poe

I need scarcely observe that a poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul. The value of…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“It may be that those who care for poetry lost little by his death. Fluent in prose, he never wrote verse for…

— Edgar Allan Poe

It is clear that a poem may be improperly brief. Undue brevity degenerates into mere epigrammatism. A very short poem, while now…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow- You are not wrong, who…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“Shadows of Shadows passing... It is now 1831... and as always, I am absorbed with a delicate thought. It is how poetry…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“A skillful literary artist has constructed a tale. If wise, he has not fashioned his thoughts to accommodate his incidents; but having…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea, That a maiden there lived whom you may…

— Edgar Allan Poe

The Merchant, to Secure His Treasure The merchant, to secure his treasure, Conveys it in a borrowed name: Euphelia serves to grace…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“From childhood's hour I have not been As others were; I have not seen As others saw; I could not bring My…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“ The Lake In spring of youth it was my lot To haunt of the wide world a spot The which I…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“I Dwelt alone In a world of moan, And my soul was a stagnant tide, Till the fair and gentle Eulalie became…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“I Hear the sledges with the bells - Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle,…

— Edgar Allan Poe

Melancholy is ... the most legitimate of all the poetical tones.

— Edgar Allan Poe

The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.

— Edgar Allan Poe

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

He must be theory-mad beyond redemption who ... shall ... persist in attempting to reconcile the obstinate oils and waters of Poetry and Truth.

— Edgar Allan Poe

The object, Truth, or the satisfaction of the intellect, and the object, Passion, or the excitement of the heart, are, although attainable,…

— Edgar Allan Poe