Edgar Allan Poe

I have made no money. I am as poor now as ever I was in my life – except in hope, which is by no means bankable.

Edgar Allan Poe

I have no words alas! to tell the loveliness of loving well.

Edgar Allan Poe

I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.

Edgar Allan Poe

If in many of my productions terror has been the thesis, I maintain that terror is not of Germany, but of the soul.

Edgar Allan Poe

If we cannot comprehend God in his visible works, how then in his inconceivable thoughts, that call the works into being?

Edgar Allan Poe

If you are ever drowned or hung, be sure and make a note of your sensations.

Edgar Allan Poe

In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.

Edgar Allan Poe

In her sepulcher there by the sea – In her tomb by the sounding sea.

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

In visions of the dark night I have dreamed of joy departed – But a waking dream of life and light Hath left me broken-hearted.

Edgar Allan Poe