More quotes by Edgar Allan Poe

"Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die."
"The idea of God, infinity, or spirit stands for the possible attempt at an impossible conception."
"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"
"A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it."
"There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion."