"The world is a joke; and I am the joker."

"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."

"If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me."

"And then there stole into my fancy, like a rich musical note, the thought of what sweet rest there must be in the grave."

"There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion."