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

"By a route obscure and lonelyHaunted by ill angels only,Where an eidolon, named NIGHT,On a black throne reigns upright,I have reached these lands but newlyFrom an ultimate dim Thule --From a wild, weird clime that lieth, sublime,Out of SPACE, out of TIME."

"With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion."

"I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago."

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

"I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched."