787 Quotes by Edgar Allan Poe

The antique volume which I had taken up was the “Mad Trist” of Sir Launcelot Canning; but I had called it a favorite of Usher’s more in sad jest than in earnest; for, in truth, there is little in its uncouth and unimaginative prolixity which could have had interest for the lofty and spiritual ideality of my friend.

But we loved with a love that was more than love, I and my Annabel Lee.

In no affairs of mere prejudice, pro or con, do we deduce inferences with entire certainty, even from the most simple data.

I have often been reproached with the aridity of my genius; a deficiency of imagination has been imputed to me as a crime; and the Pyrrhonism of my opinions has at all times rendered me notorious.

Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen ME.

Not altogether a fool,” said G., “but then he’s a poet, which I take to be only one remove from a fool.

The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist.

I went as a passenger, having no other inducement than a kind of nervous restlessness which haunted me as a fiend.

Be nothing which thou art not.