Edgar Allan Poe Quotes & Sayings

44 most famous Edgar Allan Poe quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He was an American poet who passed away on 7 October, 1849.

“We loved with a love that was more than love.”

“Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.”

“The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?”

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

“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”

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

“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.”

“Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.”

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

“I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.”