Edgar Allan Poe

If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.

Science! true daughter of Old Time thou art!

The loss of beauty is the loss of life.

Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

Beauty is the sole legitimate province of poetry.

I have no faith in human perfectibility.

The heart is like a musical instrument of many strings, most of which are silent.

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, and faith.

The writer of the smallest note of criticism should have the courage to assume that about it the writer of the book will say: 'He is in error.'

There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart.

I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.

The best of everything is the least that can be done with the least effort.

Tyrants fall in every age; but Genius can never die.

I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence today, to-morrow, or at any distant day; and therefore I have nothing to fear.

The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body.

In reading some of the English poets, I have often sighed over their limitation of genius to the idea that the gardens, birds, the dews, the leaves, the flowers, belong to any one cottage, any one dwelling.

My life has been one of continual care and anxiety.

The true genius shudders at incompleteness—and usually prefers silence to saying the something that is not everything that should be said.

And all I loved, I loved alone.

The ruddy luster of the punch-bowl is a sure pledge of a successful party.