Edgar Allan Poe Quotes

Edgar Allan Poe Quote of the day

The past is a pebble in my shoe.

I have before suggested that a genuine blackguard is never without a pocket-handkerchief.

A woman being never at a loss... the devil always sticks by them.

The difficulty with Poe is not figuring out which of his stories rise to the level required of this collection, but rather which of his stories to exclude from it.

I started to drink heavily, comfortably caught in the tentacle-like clutches of alcohol.

It is a happiness to wonder

At midnight, in the month of June, I stand beneath the mystic moon.

Don't let your past dictate your future,

For the moon never beams without bringing me dreamsOf the beautiful Annabel Lee

I have been happy, though in a dream.I have been happy-and I love the theme:Dreams! in their vivid colouring of lifeAs in that fleeting, shadowy, misty strife

A feeling, for which I have no name, has taken possession of my soul.

Edgar Allan Poe’s writings showed me perfectly that there can be such fragile beauty and purity located in darkness and sorrow.

The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess

It’s a case of mistaken identity. It’s one big mistake. You weren’t even in the country when it happened.”Maja in the short story 'Metro' by Steen Langstrup

I was a child and she was a child, In this kingdom by the sea, But we loved with a love that was more than love— I and my Annabel Lee—

From childhood's hour I have not beenAs others were