"It is the nature of truth in general,
as of some ores in particular,
to be richest when most superficial."
-Edgar Allan Poe

"Those who dream by day are cognizant
of many things that escape
those who dream only at night."
-Edgar Allan Poe

"It will be found, in fact,
that the ingenious are always fanciful,
and the truly imaginative
never otherwise than analytic."
-Edgar Allan Poe

"The true genius
shudders at incompleteness...
and usually prefers silence
to saying something which is not
every thing it should be."
-Edgar Allan Poe

"After reading all that has been written,
and after thinking all that can be thought,
on the topics of God and the soul,
the man who has a right to say that he
thinks at all, will find himself face to face
with the conclusion that, on these topics,
the most profound thought is that which can
be the least easily distinguished from
the most superficial sentiment."
-Edgar Allan Poe

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

"Beauty of whatever kind,
in its supreme development, invariably
excites the sensitive soul to tears."
-Edgar Allan Poe