I am a writer. Therefore, I am not sane.
EDGAR ALLAN POEI am a writer. Therefore, I am not sane.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThose who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThe rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
EDGAR ALLAN POEDeep in earth my love is lying and I must weep alone.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThere is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThe 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.
EDGAR ALLAN POELet my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThat which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
EDGAR ALLAN POEEven with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThe nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
EDGAR ALLAN POEI have great faith in fools – self-confidence my friends will call it.
EDGAR ALLAN POEWith me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
EDGAR ALLAN POEI intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.
EDGAR ALLAN POEWhen a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket.
EDGAR ALLAN POETo elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThat 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.
EDGAR ALLAN POE