Edgar Allan Poe — "I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow."

"Why ought the author of the 'Grotesque and Arabesque' to be a good writer of verses? Because he's a poet to a t. Add t to Poe makes it Poet."

"True! - nervous - very, very nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acut…"

"It was night, and the rain fell; and falling, it was rain, but, having fallen, it was blood."

"I have a very strong opinion that the world is a stage, and all the men and women merely players."

"The waggish author of 'The New Mirror' is, I believe, the first who has openly maintained the doctrine that the great end of a writer is to get money."