Quotes by Edgar Allan Poe

Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

#Edgar Allan Poe

Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.

#Creation

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

#Edgar Allan Poe

Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who...

#Edgar Allan Poe

It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly...

#Edgar Allan Poe

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall...

#Existence

In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is...

#Edgar Allan Poe

In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe....

#Edgar Allan Poe

If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing...

#Edgar Allan Poe

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

#Edgar Allan Poe

Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it...

#Edgar Allan Poe

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream...

#Edgar Allan Poe