10 Best Quotes by Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe is one of the top horror writers of all time, most known for The Raven and The Tell-Tale Heart.

He was born in Boston on January 19, 1809 and died in Baltimore on October 7, 1849, at the age of 40.

Poe was the middle of three children. His parents died before he was 4 years old.

Edgar Allan Poe might have coined the phrase “short story”. He most certainly was one of the earliest American writers writing short stories.

He was pen pals with Charles Dickens.

The football team, the Baltimore Ravens, are named in honor of his poem, The Raven.

“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity. –Edgar Allan Poe

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.” –Edgar Allan Poe

“We loved with a love that was more than love.” –Edgar Allan Poe

“I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.” –Edgar Allan Poe

“There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.” –Edgar Allan Poe

“Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.” –Edgar Allan Poe

“Years of love have been forgot, in the hatred of a minute.” –Edgar Allan Poe

“Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.” –Edgar Allan Poe

“The true genius shudders at incompleteness – Imperfection – and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.” –Edgar Allan Poe

“Deep in the earth my love is lying And I must weep alone.” –Edgar Allan Poe

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