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

“Lord help my poor soul.”

“For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams”

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

“Other friends have flown before -”

“I”

“From childhood's hour I have not been”

“The first fact of the world is that it repeats itself. I had been taught to believe that the freshness of children lay in their capacity for wonder at the vividness and strangeness of the particular, but what is fresh in them is that they still experience the power of repetition, from which our first sense of the power of mastery comes. Though predictable is an ugly little world in daily life, in our first experience of it we are clued to the hope of a shapeliness in things. To see that power working on adults, you have to catch them out: the look of foolish happiness on the faces of people who have just sat down to dinner is their knowledge that dinner will be served. Probably, that is the psychological basis for the power and the necessity of artistic form...Maybe our first experience of form is the experience of our own formation...And I am not thinking mainly of poems about form; I’m thinking of the form of a poem, the shape of its understanding. The presence of that shaping constitutes the presence of poetry.”

“What though the radiance which was once so bright”

“From the union of power and money,”

“After all, my erstwhile dear,”

“Las lágrimas que no se lloran”