More quotes by Edgar Allan Poe

"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity."
"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.'"
"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream."
"All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry."
"I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched."