787 Quotes by Edgar Allan Poe

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.

Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.

Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.

To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.

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 —Only this and nothing more.

Blood was its Avatar and its seal.

How is it that from beauty I have derived a type of unloveliness?—from the covenant of peace a simile of sorrow? But as, in ethics, evil is a consequence of good, so, in fact, out of joy is sorrow born.

I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down."[Letter to J. Beauchamp Jones, August 8, 1839]

How solemnly pervading the calm air!A sound of silence on the startled earWhich dreamy poets name "the music of the sphere."Ours is a world of words: Quiet we call"Silence"—which is the merest word of all.