Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to d... - Edgar Allan Poe

"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."

"There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion."

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

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

"There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man."