Edgar Allan Poe — "Beauty is the sole legitimate province of the poem."

"The highest intellect is but a shadow of the lowest intuition."

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

"He knew that Hop-Frog was not fond of wine; for it excited the poor cripple almost to madness; and madness is no comfortable feeling."

"That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses."

"I would define, in brief, the Poetry of words as The Rhythmical Creation of Beauty. Its sole arbiter is Taste. With the Intellect or with the Conscience, it has only collateral relations. Unless, inde…"