Edgar Allan Poe Quotes About Poetry

Quotes about: Poetry

• All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Inspirational, Life, Dream

  "A DreamWithin a Dream" l. 10 (1849)

• We loved with a love that was more than love.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Love, Marriage, Valentines Day

  "Annabel Lee" l. 7 (1849)

• All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Inspirational, Life, Religious

• Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Beauty, Thoughtful, Poetry

  "The Poetic Principle". Essay by Edgar Allan Poe, 1850.

• With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Passion, Poetry, Purpose

  Edgar Allan Poe (2004). “The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe”, p.715, Wordsworth Editions

• The word "Verse" is used here as the term most convenient for expressing, and without pedantry, all that is involved in the consideration of rhythm, rhyme, meter, and versification... the subject is exceedingly simple; one tenth of it, possibly may be called ethical; nine tenths, however, appertains to the mathematics.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Simple, Poetry, May

• It is clear that a poem may be improperly brief. Undue brevity degenerates into mere epigrammatism. A very short poem, while now and then producing a brilliant or vivid, never produces a profound or enduring, effect. There must be the steady pressing down of the stamp upon the wax.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Profound, Poetry, May

  Edgar Allan Poe (2017). “Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Essays, Literary Studies, Criticism, Cryptography & Autography, Translations, Letters and Other Non-Fiction Works: The Philosophy of Composition, The Rationale of Verse, The Poetic Principle, Old English Poetry, Maelzel's Chess Player, Eureka, The Literati of New York, Fifty Suggestions, Exordium, Marginalia…”, p.52, e-artnow

• Melancholy is ... the most legitimate of all the poetical tones.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Poetry, Tone, Melancholy

  Edgar Allan Poe (2016). “Edgar Allan Poe's Complete Poetical Works”, p.148, Lulu.com

• He must be theory-mad beyond redemption who ... shall ... persist in attempting to reconcile the obstinate oils and waters of Poetry and Truth.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Oil And Water, Mad, Poetry

  Edgar Allan Poe (1876). “Poems and Essays of Edgar Allan Poe: Including Memoir”, p.162

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