Quotes by Edgar Allan Poe

I have no faith in human perfectability. 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.

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

To be thoroughly conversant with a man's heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of despair.

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

Scorching my seared heart with a pain, not hell shall make me fear again.

It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve.