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Edgar Allan Poe wrote so many great works which are full of amazing quotes! Below you’ll see which quote fits with your enneagram type in these Edgar Allan Poe quotes by Enneagram type.
I, as a rule, do not type fictional characters. I know it’s a fun thing to do and I’ll admit I do it internally but I won’t create a post telling people what enneagram type Edgar Allan Poe was.
Why? Because fictional characters are an amalgam of the author (or screen writers/producers) imagination.
That said, I will do quotes by enneagram types. Quotes are just a snippet of the person who said it but that snippet can be a decent glimpse of what a particular enneagram type might believe or agree with.
This does not mean that if Edgar Allan Poe says what I think is a type 8 quote that he is a type 8. It just means that the quote seems 8ish.
Although let’s be honest… most people peg Poe as a total 4 but as he didn’t take an enneagram test and the enneagram wasn’t really a thing back then… we can only speculate.
Now that I’ve got all my disclosures over with, on to the fun stuff! All of these quotes are from different works of Poe and I’ve included which they come from so you can go read the work in full in one of Poe’s books.
Edgar Allan Poe Quotes By Enneagram Type
Type 1 Edgar Allan Poe Quote
“The true genius shudders at incompleteness -imperfection- and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.”
This quote can be found in Poe’s Marginalia
Type 2 Edgar Allan Poe Quote
“We loved with a love that was more than love.”
This quote can be found in Poe’s Annabel Lee
Type 3 Edgar Allan Poe Quote
“I have been happy, tho’ in a dream.”
This quote can be found in Poe’s Dreams
Type 4 Edgar Allan Poe Quote
“Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.”
This quote can be found in Poe’s Mesmeric Revelation
Type 5 Edgar Allan Poe Quote
“To observe attentively is to remember distinctly.”
This quote can be found in Poe’s The Murders in the Rue Morgue
Type 6 Edgar Allan Poe Quote
“That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.”
This quote can be found in Poe’s The Tell-Tale Heart
Type 7 Edgar Allan Poe Quote
“To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths.”
This quote can be found in Poe’s Assignation
Type 8 Edgar Allan Poe Quote
“Who has not, a hundred times, found himself committing a vile or silly action for not other reason than because he knows he should not?”
This quote can be found in Poe’s The Black Cat
Type 9 Edgar Allan Poe Quote
“I dread the events of the future, not in themselves, but in their results.”
This quote can be found in Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher
As fun as it is to find Edgar Allan Poe quotes by enneagram type that fit our types that, of course, is not where the real growth is.
If you are wanting more information that will help you learn more about your type, check out these posts:
The Core Motivations
How to Get Along With Each Type
The Centers of Intelligence
And if you just want more fun quotes… check out my Quotes section!
