If in many of my productions terror has been the thesis, I maintain that terror is not of Germany, but of the soul.
Edgar Allan PoeThey who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Edgar Allan PoeBut in the expression of the countenance, which was beaming all over with smiles, there still lurked (incomprehensible anomalyl) that fitful strain of melancholy which will ever be found inseparable from the perfection of the beautiful.
Edgar Allan PoeI am walking like a bewitched corpse, with the certainty of being eaten by the infinite, of being annulled by the only existing Absurd.
Edgar Allan Poe