Edgar Allan Poe

"The true human being is one who fights against the darkness within himself."

"I have loved beauty in all its forms."

"There is no substitute for the human touch in understanding another human being."

"I am not interested in perfection. I am interested in truth."

"The imagination is everything."

"I have learned to fear nothing but fear itself."

"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 reputation and reason."

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

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

"I have not permitted myself to suppose that either the structure of language or the principles of human nature will be forever the same."

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

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

"I am not very well - but the Raven has been riding upon my shoulder for some weeks past."

"Mystery is the essential element of all beauty."

"A man's inability to choose is not an indecision—it is a statement of the impossibility."

"Knowledge itself is power, yet power is not knowledge."

"The greatest pain is not in loss, but in the realization that you never truly had it."

"I have absolutely no faith in human nature. I do not believe that anything is true, and I am sure about nothing."

"Stupidity is a capital crime, yet we all commit it."

"The struggle is the greatest gift, not the victory."

"Melancholy is the sweetness of all creation."

"I am convinced that genius is an inheritance."

"The true genius shakes the world, and leaves no doubt of his presence."

"Logic is merely the backbone of beauty."

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

"To observe is to exist; to think is to be real."

"The noblest of all things is the pursuit of understanding."

"Every moment brings new possibilities for grace and transformation."

"Despair is only for those who see the end beyond the doubt."

"I have often noticed that the very same soul that urges us to dream also urges us to die."