Edgar Allan Poe

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

"Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before."

"I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it."

"I have no faith in human perfectability. 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."

"It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial."

"The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?"

"The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world."

"The 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."

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

"With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion."

"Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality."