Quotes by Edgar Allan Poe

“Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.””

“From childhood's hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone.””

“Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door”

“Sleep, those little slices of death”

“Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.””

“Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.””

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

“Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is glorious– whether all that is profound– does not spring from disease of thought– from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect.””

“Sometimes I’m terrified of my heart; of its constant hunger for whatever it is it wants. The way it stops and starts.””

“If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.””

“I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.””

“Deep in earth my love is lyingAnd I must weep alone.””