# Edgar Allan Poe's most famous quotes

"Nevermore", "a dream within a dream", the beating of the tell-tale heart and Fortunato's cry: the Edgar Allan Poe lines everyone knows, with the poem or tale they come from.

- 602 votes · 10 items
- Aug 2, 2019 · malagagolosa
- https://even.best/en/l/4892/edgar-allan-poe-s-most-famous-quotes

## Top 10

1. **All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.** (69 · ▲74 ▼5) — A Dream Within a Dream (1849).
2. **Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore."** (62 · ▲66 ▼4) — The Raven (1845).
3. **It is the beating of his hideous heart!** (51 · ▲60 ▼9) — The Tell-Tale Heart (1843).
4. **I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.** (45 · ▲53 ▼8) — Letter to George W. Eveleth, 4 January 1848.
5. **Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.** (43 · ▲49 ▼6) — Eleonora (1842).
6. **For the love of God, Montresor!** (40 · ▲52 ▼12) — The Cask of Amontillado (1846).
7. **It was many and many a year ago, in a kingdom by the sea...** (34 · ▲45 ▼11) — Annabel Lee (1849).
8. **The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague.** (34 · ▲43 ▼9) — The Premature Burial (1844).
9. **There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.** (16 · ▲34 ▼18) — Ligeia (1838), quoting Francis Bacon.
10. **Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing.** (16 · ▲30 ▼14) — The Raven (1845).

How is this ranking ordered? By people's votes: each ▲ adds a point and each ▼ takes one away. Anyone can vote and add what is missing.