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

“To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.”

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

“I Dwelt alone”

“Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.”

“It was many and many a year ago,”

“Other friends have flown before -”

“You remember too much,”

“I'll be writing as long as I can hold a pen in my curled, crimped arthritic hands and then I'll dictate it, if it comes to that. They'll have to pry my pen out of my cold, dead fingers - and even then, I'll fight 'em for it. Guaranteed.”

“There is more and more I tell no one,”

“Tell all the truth but tell it slant.”

“At Blackwater Pond”

“Look deeper through the telescope”