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

“I saw thee once - only once - years ago:”

“Who has not, a hundred times, found himself committing a vile or silly action for no other reason than because he knows he should”

“You call it hope — that fire of fire!”

“True, nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am, but why will say that I am mad?! The disease had sharpened my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute.”

“Invisible things are the only realities.”

“I have been happy, though in a dream.”

“Conscience is no more than the dead speaking to us.”

“Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.”

“They should have warned you that little princesses grow up to be red rocks and raging seas, fire dragons and warrior queens.”

“Art is the means we have of undoing the damage of haste. It's what everything else isn't.”

“Words are what sticks to the real. We use them to push the real, to drag the real into the poem. They are what we hold on with, nothing else. They are as valuable in themselves as rope with nothing to be tied to.”

“I am talking about the responsibility of the poet, who is irresponsible by definition, an anarchist enamored of a solar order and never of the new order or whatever slogan makes five or six hundred million men march in step in a parody of order.”