Edgar Allan Poe Quotes - Page 2

American - Poet January 19, 1809 - October 7, 1849 Read full biography

There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.

Edgar Allan Poe

Think Test Popularity I Think

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

Edgar Allan Poe

Future Look Think Dream

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

Edgar Allan Poe

Friend Me Purpose Bold

The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.

Edgar Allan Poe

Time Imagination Nose Mob

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

Edgar Allan Poe

Man Brave Suits Coward

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

Edgar Allan Poe

I Am Weakness Disaster Above

Lord, help my poor soul.

Edgar Allan Poe

Soul Help Poor Lord

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

Edgar Allan Poe

Faith Man Wise Happy

To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.

Edgar Allan Poe

Man Great Greatness Great Man

I need scarcely observe that a poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul. The value of the poem is in the ratio of this elevating excitement.

Edgar Allan Poe

Soul Value Only Need

In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.

Edgar Allan Poe

Out Because Obscure Point

It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.

Edgar Allan Poe

Always Never Will Fact

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

Edgar Allan Poe

Nature Truth Most Some

The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.

Edgar Allan Poe

Fire World Admire Reason

Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

Edgar Allan Poe

Life Man Happy Will

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

Edgar Allan Poe

May Found Verse Possibly

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