Even in the grave, all is not lost. - Edgar Allan Poe

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

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

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

"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."

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