"The soul of a poem, its very essence, is its rhythm."

"I have no faith in any system of education that does not cultivate the imagination."

"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."

"It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream."

"Who has not, a hundred times, found himself committing a vile or a silly action for no other reason than because he knows he should not?"