--- title: "16 Should Quotes By Edgar Allan Poe" description: "16 Should quotes by Edgar Allan Poe. Plus more from Edgar Allan Poe and more Should sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c11/edgar-allan-poe-315_art_all-works-of-art-should-begin-at-the-end_441542.jpg" --- > [All works of art should begin... at the end.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-allan-poe/all-works-of-art-should-begin-at-the-end/) [Edgar Allan Poe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-allan-poe/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c11/edgar-allan-poe-315_art_all-works-of-art-should-begin-at-the-end_441542.jpg) > [A mystery, and a dream, should my early life seem.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-allan-poe/a-mystery-and-a-dream-should-my-early-life-seem/) [Edgar Allan Poe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-allan-poe/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/446/edgar-allan-poe-315_dream_a-mystery-and-a-dream-should-my-early-li_2436084.jpg) > [Sensations are the great things, after all. Should you ever be drowned or hung, be sure and make a note of your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-allan-poe/sensations-are-the-great-things-after-all-should-you-ever-be-drowned/) [Edgar Allan Poe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-allan-poe/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f0d/edgar-allan-poe-315_great-things_sensations-are-the-great-things-after-al_3158845.jpg) > [Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-allan-poe/now-this-is-the-point-you-fancy-me-a-mad-madmen-know-nothing-but-you/) [Edgar Allan Poe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-allan-poe/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/390/edgar-allan-poe-315_fancy_now-this-is-the-point-you-fancy-me-a-mad_3037375.jpg) > [A man's grammar, like Caesar's wife, must not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-allan-poe/a-man-s-grammar-like-caesar-s-wife-must-not-only-be-pure-but-above/) [Edgar Allan Poe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-allan-poe/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/87d/edgar-allan-poe-315_caesar-s-wife_a-man-s-grammar-like-caesar-s-wife-must_1994418.jpg) > [A man's grammar, like Caesar's wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-allan-poe/a-man-s-grammar-like-caesar-s-wife-should-not-only-be-pure-but-above/) [Edgar Allan Poe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-allan-poe/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1f6/edgar-allan-poe-315_grammar_a-man-s-grammar-like-caesar-s-wife-shoul_1580845.jpg) > [There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-allan-poe/there-are-few-cases-in-which-mere-popularity-should-be-considered-a/) [Edgar Allan Poe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-allan-poe/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/be3/edgar-allan-poe-315_cases_there-are-few-cases-in-which-mere-popula_164853.jpg) > [The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-allan-poe/the-true-genius-shudders-at-incompleteness-and-usually-prefers/) [Edgar Allan Poe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-allan-poe/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/385/edgar-allan-poe-315_genius_the-true-genius-shudders-at-incompletene_3170121.jpg) > [With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-allan-poe/with-me-poetry-has-been-not-a-purpose-but-a-passion-and-the-passions/) [Edgar Allan Poe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-allan-poe/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/209/edgar-allan-poe-315_commendation_with-me-poetry-has-been-not-a-purpose-bu_738704.jpg) > [The analytical power should not be confounded with simple ingenuity; for while the analyst is necessarily ingenious, the ingenious man is often…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-allan-poe/the-analytical-power-should-not-be-confounded-with-simple-ingenuity/) [Edgar Allan Poe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-allan-poe/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/116/edgar-allan-poe-315_analysis_the-analytical-power-should-not-be-confo_579081.jpg) > [Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-allan-poe/were-i-called-on-to-define-very-briefly-the-term-art-i-should-call-it/) [Edgar Allan Poe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-allan-poe/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1c9/edgar-allan-poe-315_accurate_were-i-called-on-to-define-very-briefly_2157764.jpg) > [Let us dismiss, as irrelevant to the poem per se, the circumstance ... which, in the first place, gave rise to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-allan-poe/let-us-dismiss-as-irrelevant-to-the-poem-per-se-the-circumstance/) [Edgar Allan Poe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-allan-poe/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/427/edgar-allan-poe-315_circumstances_let-us-dismiss-as-irrelevant-to-the-poem_891648.jpg) > [Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-allan-poe/yet-i-am-not-more-sure-that-my-soul-lives-than-i-am-that-perverseness/) [Edgar Allan Poe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-allan-poe/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/59e/edgar-allan-poe-315_action_yet-i-am-not-more-sure-that-my-soul-live_904518.jpg) > [If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-allan-poe/if-any-ambitious-man-have-a-fancy-to-revolutionize-at-one-effort-the-2/) [Edgar Allan Poe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-allan-poe/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/43c/edgar-allan-poe-315_ambition_if-any-ambitious-man-have-a-fancy-to-rev_2520469.jpg) > [We now demand the light artillery of the intellect; we need the curt, the condensed, the pointed, the readily diffused - in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-allan-poe/we-now-demand-the-light-artillery-of-the-intellect-we-need-the-curt-2/) [Edgar Allan Poe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-allan-poe/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7b9/edgar-allan-poe-315_artillery_we-now-demand-the-light-artillery-of-the_486941.jpg) > [The Merchant, to Secure His Treasure The merchant, to secure his treasure, Conveys it in a borrowed name: Euphelia serves to grace…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-allan-poe/the-merchant-to-secure-his-treasure-the-merchant-to-secure-his/) [Edgar Allan Poe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-allan-poe/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/435/edgar-allan-poe-315_borrowed_the-merchant-to-secure-his-treasure-the_1794387.jpg) ## Other authors on Should ## More by 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 passions from a common…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-allan-poe/from-childhood-s-hour-i-have-not-been-as-others-were-i-have-not-seen/) [Edgar Allan Poe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-allan-poe/) > [There is no passion in nature so demoniacally impatient, as that of him who, shuddering upon the edge of a precipice, thus meditates a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-allan-poe/there-is-no-passion-in-nature-so-demoniacally-impatient-as-that-of/) [Edgar Allan Poe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-allan-poe/) > [To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-allan-poe/to-vilify-a-great-man-is-the-readiest-way-in-which-a-little-man-can/) [Edgar Allan Poe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 conceived, with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-allan-poe/a-skillful-literary-artist-has-constructed-a-tale-if-wise-he-has-not/) [Edgar Allan Poe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-allan-poe/) > [“For eyes we have no models in the remotely antique.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-allan-poe/for-eyes-we-have-no-models-in-the-remotely-antique/) [Edgar Allan Poe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-allan-poe/) > [“During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-allan-poe/during-the-whole-of-a-dull-dark-and-soundless-day-in-the-autumn-of/) [Edgar Allan Poe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-allan-poe/) > [Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-allan-poe/those-who-dream-by-day-are-cognizant-of-many-things-that-escape-those/) [Edgar Allan Poe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-allan-poe/) > [“I have said that the sole effect of my somewhat childish experiment—that of looking down within the tarn—had been to deepen the first singular…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-allan-poe/i-have-said-that-the-sole-effect-of-my-somewhat-childish-experiment/) [Edgar Allan Poe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-allan-poe/) > [And all my days are trances, And all my nightly dreams Are where thy dark eye glances, And where thy footstep gleams-- In what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-allan-poe/and-all-my-days-are-trances-and-all-my-nightly-dreams-are-where-thy/) [Edgar Allan Poe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-allan-poe/) > [“Other friends have flown before — On the morrow he will leave me, as my hopes have flown before.” Quoth the raven, “Nevermore.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-allan-poe/other-friends-have-flown-before-on-the-morrow-he-will-leave-me-as-my/) [Edgar Allan Poe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-allan-poe/) > [“To the right and left, as far as the eye could reach, there lay outstretched, like ramparts of the world, lines of horridly black…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-allan-poe/to-the-right-and-left-as-far-as-the-eye-could-reach-there-lay/) [Edgar Allan Poe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-allan-poe/) > [Men die nightly in their beds, wringing the hands of ghostly confessors ... on account of the hideousness of mysteries which will not suffer…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-allan-poe/men-die-nightly-in-their-beds-wringing-the-hands-of-ghostly/) [Edgar Allan Poe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-allan-poe/) > [And the Raven, never flitting, Still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas Just above my chamber door; And his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-allan-poe/and-the-raven-never-flitting-still-is-sitting-still-is-sitting-on-the/) [Edgar Allan Poe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-allan-poe/) > [I was forced to fall back upon the unsatisfactory conclusion, that while, beyond doubt, there are combinations of very simple natural objects which have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-allan-poe/i-was-forced-to-fall-back-upon-the-unsatisfactory-conclusion-that/) [Edgar Allan Poe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 the bright…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-allan-poe/for-the-moon-never-beams-without-bringing-me-dreams-of-the-beautiful/) [Edgar Allan Poe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-allan-poe/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/should/edgar-allan-poe/#itemlist", "name": "16 Should Quotes By Edgar Allan Poe", "numberOfItems": 16, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "All works of art should begin... at the end.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Edgar Allan Poe" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-allan-poe/all-works-of-art-should-begin-at-the-end/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c11/edgar-allan-poe-315_art_all-works-of-art-should-begin-at-the-end_441542.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c11/edgar-allan-poe-315_art_all-works-of-art-should-begin-at-the-end_441542.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c11/edgar-allan-poe-315_art_all-works-of-art-should-begin-at-the-end_441542.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“All works of art should begin... at the end.” — Edgar Allan Poe", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "A mystery, and a dream, should my early life seem.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Edgar Allan Poe" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-allan-poe/a-mystery-and-a-dream-should-my-early-life-seem/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/446/edgar-allan-poe-315_dream_a-mystery-and-a-dream-should-my-early-li_2436084.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/446/edgar-allan-poe-315_dream_a-mystery-and-a-dream-should-my-early-li_2436084.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/446/edgar-allan-poe-315_dream_a-mystery-and-a-dream-should-my-early-li_2436084.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“A mystery, and a dream, should my early life seem.” — Edgar Allan Poe", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Sensations are the great things, after all. 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