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“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”

Letter http://www.eapoe.org/works/letters/p4801040.htm to George W. Eveleth, Jan. 4, 1848.

“From childhood's hour I have not been
As others were — I have not seen
As others saw —”

" Alone http://gothlupin.tripod.com/valone.html", l. 1-8 (written 1829, published 1875).
Kontext: From childhood's hour I have not been
As others were — I have not seen
As others saw — I could not bring
My passions from a common spring —
From the same source I have not taken
My sorrow — I could not awaken
My heart to joy at the same tone —
And all I lov'd — I lov'd alone

“All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.”

Edgar Allan Poe buch A Dream Within a Dream

"A Dream Within a Dream" (1849).
Kontext: You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.

“Beauty is the sole legitimate province of the poem.”

Edgar Allan Poe buch Die Methode der Komposition

"The Philosophy of Composition" (published 1846).

“Man is an animal that diddles, and there is no animal that diddles but man.”

" Diddling: Considered As One Of The Exact Sciences http://www.classicreader.com/read.php/sid.6/bookid.1390/"; first published as "Raising the Wind" in Saturday Courier (1843-10-14).

“Sleep. Those little slices of death. How I loathe them.”

Various forms of this quote are attributed to Poe, primarily by a title card in the movie A Nightmare on Elm Street 3, though there is no record of his having ever said it.
Misattributed

“Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.”

Edgar Allan Poe buch The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether

"The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether" (1845)

“You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;”

Edgar Allan Poe buch A Dream Within a Dream

"A Dream Within a Dream" (1849).
Kontext: You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.

“I was a child and she was a child,
In this kingdom by the sea,
But we loved with a love that was more than love —
I and my Annabel Lee —”

Edgar Allan Poe Annabel Lee

St. 2.
Annabel Lee (1849)
Kontext: I was a child and she was a child,
In this kingdom by the sea,
But we loved with a love that was more than love —
I and my Annabel Lee —
With a love that the wingèd seraphs of Heaven
Coveted her and me.

“It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden lived whom you may know
By the name of Annabel Lee; —”

Edgar Allan Poe Annabel Lee

St. 1.
Annabel Lee (1849)
Kontext: It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden lived whom you may know
By the name of Annabel Lee; —
And this maiden she lived with no other thought
Than to love and be loved by me.

“Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,”

Edgar Allan Poe The Raven

Stanza 1.
The Raven (1844)
Kontext: Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.

“And now have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the senses?”

Edgar Allan Poe buch The Tell-Tale Heart

The Tell-Tale Heart (1843)
Kontext: And now have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the senses? -- now, I say, there came to my ears a low, dull, quick sound, such as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton. I knew that sound too. It was the beating of the old man's heart. It increased my fury, as the beating of a drum stimulates the soldier into courage.

“If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.”

Marginalia http://www.easylit.com/poe/comtext/prose/margin.shtml (November 1844)
Variante: If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.