Edgar Allan Poe Quotes

“There was much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which might have excited disgust.”

― Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death

topic:beauty

“The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body; and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrilled every fibre of my frame.”

― Edgar Allan Poe, The Black Cat

topic:evil violence

“We gave the Future to the winds, and slumbered tranquilly in the Present, weaving the dull world around us into dreams.”

― Edgar Allan Poe, The Mystery of Marie Rogêt

topic:future present

“To observe attentively is to remember distinctly”

― Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue

topic:memory

“Darkness there, and nothing more.”

― Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven

“Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.”

― Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven

topic:dream

“I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.”

― Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher

topic:sadness sorrow

“Such, I have long known, is the paradoxical law of all sentiments having terror as a basis.”

― Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher

“I grew, day by day, more moody, more irritable, more regardless of the feelings of others. I suffered myself to use intemperate language to my wife. At length, I even offered her personal violence.”

― Edgar Allan Poe, The Black Cat

“The secret of a poem, no less than a jest's prosperity, lies in the ear of him that hears it.”

― Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven

topic:poetry

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