I was never really insane except upon occasions when my hear... - Edgar Allan Poe

"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity."

"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."

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

"Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die."