There is no beauty without some strangeness

A short story is "a short prose narrative, requiring from a half hour, to one or two hours in its perusal...having conceived, with deliberate care, a certain unique or single effect to be wrought out.

To be thoroughly conversant with Man’s heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of Despair

Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded.

As a viewed myself in a fragment of looking-glass..., I was so impressed with a sense of vague awe at my appearance ... that I was seized with a violent tremour.

A mystery, and a dream, should my early life seem.

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