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."
"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."