I am a writer. Therefore, I am not sane.
EDGAR ALLAN POEI am a writer. Therefore, I am not sane.
EDGAR ALLAN POEIf you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
EDGAR ALLAN POEBooks, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
EDGAR ALLAN POEIt is a happiness to wonder; it is a happiness to dream.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThe rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThe eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow.
EDGAR ALLAN POEI dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.
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 POETo die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!
EDGAR ALLAN POEI have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active – not more happy – nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
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 POELeave my loneliness unbroken.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThe true genius shudders at incompleteness – imperfection – and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.
EDGAR ALLAN POEArt is to look at not to criticize.
EDGAR ALLAN POEDeep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
EDGAR ALLAN POEPoetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
EDGAR ALLAN POE