And all I loved, I loved alone. - Edgar Allan Poe

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

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

"Lord help my poor soul."

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

"I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom."