Edgar Allan Poe Quotes and Sayings

Art is to look at not to criticize.
Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.
I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
Even in the grave, all is not lost.
If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.