Authors / Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe quotes

1809–1849 · American writer and poet

Poe invented the detective story, perfected the horror tale and died in mysterious circumstances in Baltimore.

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3 quotes traced to Edgar Allan Poe's own work or a reliable witness.

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

Source: "A Dream Within a Dream" (1849)

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Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore."

Source: "The Raven" (1845)

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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

Source: Letter to George W. Eveleth (4 January 1848)