Edgar Allan Poe

"Each man makes his own stature, builds himself."

"Belief is not the beginning but the end of all knowledge."

"I have no faith in human nature."

"Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing."

"There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told."

"The healthy sleep, health-giving, will not be found in any lattice."

"I have seen more than most men in my lifetime."

"The one thing I have always felt most keenly about is injustice."

"We love what we love. Reason does not enter into it."

"I cannot define it, but it is not of the world."

"How terribly strange the mind of a man can become in this modern world."

"I have learned to love the sounds of silence."

"The writer is nothing but a vehicle for his time."

"In short, what makes one individual better than another is his power of sympathizing with a greater range of possibilities."

"I do believe in vampires, not in the ancient sense, but in the sense of those who would drain your very essence."

"I am absolutely unprincipled."

"I am not more mad than Aristotle or Socrates."

"I have made the impossible possible by making the possible difficult."

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold secret."

"I have not a single ray of ordinary prudence."

"The worst punishment we can inflict on a human being is to ignore their humanity."

"I am but a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief."

"I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty."

"I have made the immoral choice, which has made me incapable of making any choice at all."

"Shall I then disown my own heart and my own humanity?"

"I have no love for your modern world."

"I am a creature of impulse, never of prudence."

"Science is but a long series of mistakes."

"I have seen enough to know that nothing is impossible."

"I am grateful for what has been given to me, even as I struggle with what has been denied."