Edgar Allan Poe

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? ”

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. ”

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true. ”

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. ”

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. ”

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. ”

That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful. ”

There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man. ”

The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be. ”