More quotes by Edgar Allan Poe

"Blood was its Avatar and its seal."
"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 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."
"It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream."
"I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched."