Edgar Allan Poe

"Lord help my poor soul."

"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."

"The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true."

"Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe, and forget this lost Lenore!"

"I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched."

"Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die."

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

"Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die."

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

"There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion."

"With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion."

"The best things in life make you sweaty."

"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."

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

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

"To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary."

"It is more than probable that I am not understood; but I fear, indeed, that it is in no manner possible to convey to the mind of the merely general reader, an adequate idea of that nervous intensity of interest with which, in my case, the powers of meditation (not to speak technically) busied and buried themselves, in the contemplation of even the most ordinary objects of the universe."

"A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it."

"Blood was its Avatar and its seal."

"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."