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

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

“A skillful literary artist has constructed a tale. If wise, he has not fashioned his thoughts to accommodate his incidents; but having conceived, with deliberate care, a certain unique or single effect to be wrought out, he then invents as may best aid him in establishing this preconceived effect. If his very initial sentence tend not to the outbringing of this effect, then he has failed in his first step. In the whole composition there should be no words written, of which the tendency, direct or indirect, is not to the one pre-established design. And by such means, with such care and skill, a picture is at length painted which leaves in the mind of him who contemplates it with a kindred art, a sense of the fullest satisfaction. The idea of the tale has been presented unblemished because undisturbed: and this is an end unattainable by the novel. Undue brevity is just as exceptionable here as in the poem; but undue length is yet more to be avoided.”

“If we cannot comprehend God in his visible works, how then in his inconceivable thoughts, that call the works into being?”

“And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting”

“Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,”

“Me too thy nobleness has taught”

“Author's Prayer”

“Let us not subside into a single mandatory way of thinking or feeling, immersed by a spirit of self-gratification. But let’s dig into the fresh energy of new boundaries and at the same time pick the blossoms of poetry welling up along the path of our life, and enjoy the innocence of the little wonders of every day.”

“I love the stars they always find a way to pull me away.”

“while the scientist sees everything that happens in one point of space,”

“He remembers which sister”