More quotes by Edgar Allan Poe

"Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words."
"Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear."
"Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears."
"The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world."
"I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago."