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. ”