Poe was one of the earliest American short story writers. His multitalented genius made him famous after his tragic death.
He was a critic, mystery and most importantly a poet.
Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe is considered the inventor of the detective-fiction genre. He is also credited
with contributing to a very popular genre of science fiction. He was the first well-known American writer to try to earn a living through
writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career.
He lived only 40 short years, yet his literary legacy can be easily compared with those of other authors who lived much longer.
(1809-1849)
Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
~ Edgar Allan Poe
A gentleman with a pug nose is a contradiction in terms.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity
are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no
appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
To be thoroughly conversant with a man's heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of despair.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but
proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all these more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
He is one of the all-time masters of horror and the macabre. His major inspiration and invention was cosmic horror,
the idea that life is incomprehensible to human minds and that the universe is fundamentally alien.
He wrote fantasy and horror in the best tradition of Poe, Blackwood, and Machen. His own style gained many admirers and was later imitated by others.
(1890 - 1937)
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
~ Carl Sagan
The difference between what the most and the least learned people
know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.
~ Albert Einstein
Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.
~ Edwin Hubble
