Edgar Allan Poe

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

“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”

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

“The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.”

“Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.”

“We loved with a love that was more than love.”

“Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.”

“Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.”

“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?”

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

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

“There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.”

“To be buried alive is, beyond question, the most terrific of these extremes which has ever fallen to the lot of mere mortality.”

“I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human effort will have no appreciable effect upon humanity.”

“I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.”

“The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.”

“It is a happiness to wonder; it is a happiness to dream.”

“The true genius shudders at incompleteness.”

“From childhood's hour I have not been as others were; I have not seen as others saw.”

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