All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fea... - Edgar Allan Poe

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

"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."

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

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

"Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words."