Edgar Allan Poe

"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.'"

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

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

"The best things in life make you sweaty."

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

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

"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."

"The best things in life make you sweaty."

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

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

"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."

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

"The best things in life make you sweaty."

"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."

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

"The best things in life make you sweaty."

"I have been happy, though in a dream.I have been happy-and I love the theme:Dreams! in their vivid colouring of lifeAs in that fleeting, shadowy, misty strife"

"To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary."

"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?"

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