Edgar Allan Poe Quotes

Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore,— Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!" Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore." ~ The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic. ~ The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe Coincidences, in general, are great stumbling-blocks in the way of that class of thinkers who have been educated to know nothing of the theory of probabilities. ~ The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. ~ Eleonora by Edgar Allan Poe 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. ~ Eleonora by Edgar Allan Poe Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart - one of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give direction to the character of Man. ~ The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man. ~ The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore-- ~ The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing,
Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortals ever dared to dream before; ~ The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror. ~ The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe