Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.
Edgar Allan Poe

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.
Edgar Allan Poe

Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
Edgar Allan Poe

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
Edgar Allan Poe

Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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

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

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

The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
Edgar Allan Poe

The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.
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

The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
Edgar Allan Poe

The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
Edgar Allan Poe

The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
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

There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.
Edgar Allan Poe

There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.
Edgar Allan Poe

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Edgar Allan Poe

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.
Edgar Allan Poe

To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.
Edgar Allan Poe