Edgar Allan Poe — "Yet mad I am not...and very surely do I not dream."

"Whether people grow fat by joking, or whether there is something in fat itself which predisposes to a joke, I have never been quite able to determine..."

"The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world—and equally is it beyond doubt that the lips best suited for such topic are those of a bereaved lover."

"The greatest crimes are not those committed for profit, but those committed for love."

"I have a strong inclination to be a poet."

"From childhood's hour I have not been As others were—I have not seen As others saw—I could not bring My passions from a common spring."