Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to d... - Edgar Allan Poe
"Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die."
"Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die."
"We loved with a love that was more than love."
"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."
"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."
"It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream."