There are few persons, even among the calmest thinkers, who have not occasionally been startled into a vague yet thrilling half credence in the supernatural, by coincidences of so seemingly marvellous a character that, as mere coincidences, the intellect has been unable to receive them.

— Edgar Allan Poe

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And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.

— Edgar Allan Poe
Emotion Sad Sad About Life Depression Sadness

But Psyche uplifting her finger said: Sadly this star I mistrust.

— Edgar Allan Poe

As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.

— Edgar Allan Poe

Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best have gone to their eternal rest.

— Edgar Allan Poe

In other words, I believed, and still do believe, that truth, is frequently of its own essence, superficial, and that, in many cases, the depth lies more in the abysses where we seek her, than in the actual situations wherein she may be found.

— Edgar Allan Poe

It would be mockery to call such dreariness heaven at all.

— Edgar Allan Poe

Alas! for that accursed time They bore thee o’er the billow, From love to titled age and crime, And an unholy pillow! From me, and from our misty clime, Where weeps the silver willow!

— Edgar Allan Poe

True! – nervous – very, very nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?

— Edgar Allan Poe

The pioneers and missionaries of religion have been the real cause of more trouble and war than all other classes of mankind.

— Edgar Allan Poe
Real

It all depends on the robber’s knowledge of the loser’s knowledge of the robber. – Daupin.

— Edgar Allan Poe

And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.

— Edgar Allan Poe

For my own part, I have never had a thought which I could not set down in words, with even more distinctness than that with which I conceived it.

— Edgar Allan Poe

Tell me truly, I implore – Is there – is there balm in Gilead? – tell me – tell me, I implore!

— Edgar Allan Poe

To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!

— Edgar Allan Poe

If you are ever drowned or hung, be sure and make a note of your sensations.

— Edgar Allan Poe

I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him.

— Edgar Allan Poe

I found him well educated, with unusual powers of mind, but infected with misanthropy, and subject to perverse moods of alternate enthusiasm and melancholy.

— Edgar Allan Poe

To him, who still would gaze upon the glory of the summer sun, there comes, when that sun will from him part, a sullen hopelessness of heart.

— Edgar Allan Poe

I was a child and she was a child, In this kingdom by the sea; But we loved with a love that was more than love- I and my Annabel Lee; With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven Coveted her and me.

— Edgar Allan Poe
Poetry About Children Soulmate Heaven

Always keep a big bottle of booze at your side. If a bird starts talking nonsense to you in the middle of the night pour yourself a stiff drink.

— Edgar Allan Poe
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