Edgar Allan Poe

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

Lord, help my poor soul.

We loved with a love that was more than love.

I need scarcely observe that a poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul. The value of the poem is in the ratio of this elevating excitement.

In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?