Edgar Allan Poe Melancholy Quotations

I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.

I found him well educated, with unusual powers of mind, but infected with misanthropy, and subject to perverse moods of alternate enthusiasm and melancholy.

I fell in love with melancholy

Melancholy is ... the most legitimate of all the poetical tones.

...that fitful strain of melancholy which will ever be found inseperable from the perfection of the beautiful.