“We loved with a love that was more than love.” --from "Annabel Lee" "I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity." "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." "I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat" "There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion." "From childhood's hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone." "Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality." "There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion." "It is a happiness to wonder; -- it is a happiness to dream." "And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor, Shall be lifted -- Nevermore!"