Top 43 Quotes by 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.

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

The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

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

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.