To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.
Edgar Allan PoeThat single thought is enough. The impulse increases to a wish, the wish to a desire, the desire to an uncontrollable longing, and the longing (to the deep regret and mortification of the speaker, and in defiance of all consequences,) is indulged.
Edgar Allan PoeI have been happy, though in a dream. I have been happy-and I love the theme: Dreams! in their vivid colouring of life As in that fleeting, shadowy, misty strife
Edgar Allan PoeWe allude to the short prose narrative, requiring from a half hour to one or two hours in its perusal
Edgar Allan Poe