Tell me truly, I implore-- Is there-- is there balm in Gilead?--tell me--tell me, I implore!
Edgar Allan PoeBoston: Their hotels are bad. Their pumpkin pies are delicious. Their poetry is not so good.
Edgar Allan PoeMen have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligenceโ whether much that is gloriousโ whether all that is profoundโ does not spring from disease of thoughtโ from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect.
Edgar Allan Poe