Edgar Allan Poe Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.”

“In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.”

“The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.”

“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.”

“With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.”

“It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.”

“Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.”

“Indeed, there is an eloquence in true enthusiasm that is not to be doubted.”

“The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.”

“I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.”