Poe Quotes
I continued, as was my wont, to smile in his face, and he did not perceive that my smile now was at the thought of his immolation.
He didn’t like the idea of leaving unfinished business behind. He had wanted definite answers about the heart attacks to be able to turn the page on who or what caused so many of his brothers to die.
Every moment of the nightForever changing placesAnd they put out the star-lightWith the breath from their pale faces
States of the atmosphere pass into us as water through the meshes of a sieve, and storms occur in us before they break upon the world without, creating restless sensations. ("Absolute Evil")
Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is utterly impossible to parody a Creationist in such a way that someone won't mistake it for the genuine article.
Don't believe in coincidence. There is nothing unplanned in this universe ~ Levon Peter Poe
We may be invisible to the powers that be but we are many and our invisibility makes us stealthy like ninjas. We can sneak up on the corrupt society and TAKE BACK what they took away
It is evident that we are hurrying onward to some exciting knowledge—some never-to-be-imparted secret, whose attainment is destruction.
And a funeral, I found out, is like a wedding in reverse, with less time to plan.
Two weeks. Everything you love, own, and cherish, can be gone, liquidated, and lost forever in two weeks. Give or take a day.
Know who you are. You may think you are powerless but the greatest battles are fought and won by the warrior who is least noticed or anticipated to win
In criticism, I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.
A man's grammar, like Caesar's wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.
What an incomparable creature is the sea! ("Absolute Evil")
Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded...
I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell. How, then, am I mad?
But, for myself, the Earth’s records had taught me to look for widest ruin as the price of highest civilization.
I would rather attempt to do something I want to do regardless of how impossible it may seem than do something I don't want to do regardless of how easy it is to achieve
When I looked upon the surface of the gently flowing water, each painting that I had burned upon joining the church rose from the waves. I tried to grab them, but they dissolved upon touch.
Like a turnip such a head could be blown away very easily. For where a man was weak, a woman has unmanned him. It would be a mercy to blow such a man away.
Is not our purest form of writing that done without the taint of money?
Put your hand inside the hat, search with your fingers. He is the light wrapped inside the darkness. That’s the wonder of Rabbit. We think he’s not in the hat. But he is.
As the Great Magician says, there will always be trouble in the world. That’s why I say, there will always be a time for heroes.
Man's real life is happy chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
On desperate seas long wont to roam Thy hyacinth hair they classic face Thy naiad airs have brought me home To the glory that was Greece And the grandeur that was Rome.
Once upon a midnight dreary while I pondered weak and weary Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore.
I have learned it’s best to face down the trouble. Otherwise it will grow into a monster. We don’t have time for monsters.
I am not responsible for what another man thinks. I do claim responsibility for helping another man think
