Edgar Allan Poe

"I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and health and fortune and friends."

"I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I've led a common life."

"Sleep, those little slices of death - how I loathe them."

"We loved with a love that was more than love."

"The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague."

"I have nothing to do with your sort, and I want no row with you."

"Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey."

"Believe nothing you hear and half of what you see."

"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary."

"Quoth the Raven, Nevermore."

"I have a fear I will lose you."

"Feeble souls are only susceptible to influence by very strong external forces."

"Poetry is the passion of my nature."

"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity."

"Every man's intellect is potent enough to make him uncomfortable."

"The true genius shudders at incompleteness - imperfection - and usually prefers silence to saying the something which but half says his thought."

"The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, were the dream of theWorld to come true."

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

"I loved her as no man ever loved woman before."

"The life of a man of genius is usually the life of a martyr."

"I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants which I sometimes so madly indulge."

"The struggle of the world is the struggle of ideals."

"Truth is stranger than fiction."

"I have absolutely nothing to boast of but my sensitivity."

"During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day..."

"Once upon a time there was a beautiful maiden who knew magic."

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

"To vilify, to appropriate, to plunder, and to partition the very being of others."

"The purpose of the writer is to communicate truth."

"I am still nothing, but a struggling artist."