Yet mad I am not and very surely do I not dream.
EDGAR ALLAN POEYet mad I am not and very surely do I not dream.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThat man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
EDGAR ALLAN POEI am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.
EDGAR ALLAN POETo elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.
EDGAR ALLAN POEBeauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThere is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.
EDGAR ALLAN POEWhere the good and the bad and the worst and the best have gone to their eternal rest.
EDGAR ALLAN POEAs a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThe world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.
EDGAR ALLAN POESleep, those little slices of death – how I loathe them.
EDGAR ALLAN POEA short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
EDGAR ALLAN POEEvery poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.
EDGAR ALLAN POEAll that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
EDGAR ALLAN POENow this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded.
EDGAR ALLAN POEI am a writer. Therefore, I am not sane.
EDGAR ALLAN POEEither the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day; or the agonies which are have their origins in ecstasies which might have been.
EDGAR ALLAN POE