"True! - nervous - very, very nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?"

"A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on. (Montresor)"

"Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger."

"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 -"

"I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him."

"And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor, Shall be lifted -- Nevermore!"

"That is another of your odd notions," said the Prefect, who had a fashion of calling every thing "odd" that was beyond his comprehension, and thus lived amid an absolute legion of "oddities."

"And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door, That I scarce was sure I heard you"— here I opened wide the door; — Darkness there, and nothing more."

"Art is to look at not to criticize."

"Villains!' I shrieked. 'Dissemble no more! I admit the deed! Tear up the planks! Here, here! It is the beating of his hideous heart!"

"Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health."

"The ninety and nine are with dreams, content, but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true."

"Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant."

"Leave my loneliness unbroken"

"Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die."

"Is all that we see or seem But a dream within a dream?"

"Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore..."

"And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all."

"A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it."

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

"To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!"

"And I fell violently on my face."

"Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence."

"Convinced myself, I seek not to convince."