Edgar Allan Poe quotes

“There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

“There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

“Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

“There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

“It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

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

— Edgar Allan Poe

“I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

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

— Edgar Allan Poe

“It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

“The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

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

— Edgar Allan Poe