Edgar Allan Poe - "Eleonora"

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Edgar Allan Poe - Tamerlane, Part II
Scorching my seared heart with a pain, not hell shall make me fear again.
Edgar Allan Poe
Sleep, those little slices of death, how I loathe them.
Edgar Allan Poe
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.
Edgar Allan Poe
I have great faith in fools; self-confidence, my friends call it.
Edgar Allan Poe
Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
Edgar Allan Poe - Berenice
Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.
Edgar Allan Poe
Sleep, those little slices of death; Oh how I loathe them.
Edgar Allan Poe - The Premature Burial
There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction.
Edgar Allan Poe
Children are never too tender to be whipped. Like tough beefsteaks, the more you beat them, the more tender they become.
Edgar Allan Poe - From a letter to Frederick W. Thomas (February 14, 1849).
Depend upon it, after all, Thomas, Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man. For my own part, there is no seducing me from the path.

- Edgar Allan Poe - "Eleonora"