"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.'"
"A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it."
"By a route obscure and lonelyHaunted by ill angels only,Where an eidolon, named NIGHT,On a black throne reigns upright,I have reached these lands but newlyFrom an ultimate dim Thule --From a wild, weird clime that lieth, sublime,Out of SPACE, out of TIME."
"There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion."
"I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched."
"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."