More quotes by Edgar Allan Poe

"The best things in life make you sweaty."
"Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'"
"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity."
"Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die."
"The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world."