Edgar Allan Poe

"For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side Of my darling- my darling- my life and my bride, In the sepulchre there by the sea, In her tomb by the sounding sea."

"The idea of God, infinity, or spirit stands for the possible attempt at an impossible conception."

"There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man."

"The best things in life make you sweaty."

"By a route obscure and lonelyHaunted by ill angels only,Where an eidolon, named NIGHT,On a black throne reigns upright,I have reached these lands but newlyFrom an ultimate dim Thule --From a wild, weird clime that lieth, sublime,Out of SPACE, out of TIME."

"Blood was its Avatar and its seal."

"The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?"

"Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'"

"To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary."

"The idea of God, infinity, or spirit stands for the possible attempt at an impossible conception."

"We loved with a love that was more than love."

"From childhood's hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone."

"It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream."

"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity."

"The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world."

"Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear."

"All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry."

"Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears."

"And all I loved, I loved alone."

"Even in the grave, all is not lost."