Quotes by Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe

American poet, writer and critic

Lived from: 1809 - 1849

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Born: 19 january 1809 Died: 7 october 1849

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  • A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.
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  • All that we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream.
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  • Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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  • Believe me, there exists no such dilemma as that in which a gentleman is placed when he is forced to reply to a blackguard.
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  • Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
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  • I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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  • I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence.
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  • I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active -not more happy -nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
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  • I never can hear a crowd of people singing and gesticulating, all together, at an Italian opera, without fancying myself at Athens, listening to that particular tragedy, by Sophocles, in which he introduces a full chorus of turkeys, who set about bewailing the death of Meleager.
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  • I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
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  • If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.
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  • In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.
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  • It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.
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  • Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
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  • Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance.
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  • Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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  • 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.
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  • That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
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  • That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.
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  • The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all these more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind.
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What are the most famous quotes from Edgar Allan Poe?

The two most famous quotes from Edgar Allan Poe are:

  • "A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime."
  • "All that we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream."

When did Edgar Allan Poe live?

Edgar Allan Poe was born in 1809 and died in the year 1849.