More quotes by Edgar Allan Poe

"To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary."
"I have been happy, though in a dream.I have been happy-and I love the theme:Dreams! in their vivid colouring of lifeAs in that fleeting, shadowy, misty strife"
"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."
"The best things in life make you sweaty."
"With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion."