Top 43 Quotes by Edgar Allan Poe

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.

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

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.

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

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.

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.