Poetry Quote by Edgar Allan Poe — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Sleep, those little slices of death — how I loathe them.”

“Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe, and forget this lost Lenore!”

“I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it.”

“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. In their gray visions they obtain glimpses of eternity, and thrill, in waking, to find that they have been upon the verge of the great secret. In snatches, they learn something of the wisdom which is of good, and more of the mere knowledge which is of evil.”

“Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness.”

“Thy soul shall find itself alone”

“LADY LAZARUS”

“Icarus should have waited for nightfall,”

“But often, in the world’s most crowded streets,”

“We are all the fools of time and terror: Days”

“You are ice and fire”

“The busybody (banned as sexist, demeaning to older women) who lives next door called my daughter a tomboy (banned as sexist) when she climbed the jungle (banned; replaced with "rain forest") gym. Then she had the nerve to call her an egghead and a bookworm (both banned as offensive; replaced with "intellectual") because she read fairy (banned because suggests homosexuality; replace with "elf") tales.”