Sometimes I'm terrified of my heart; of it's constant huger for whatever it is, it wants. The way it stops and starts. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“Twas noontide of summer, And mid-time of night; And stars, in their orbits, Shone pale, thro' the light Of the brighter, cold… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“From the dim regions beyond the mountains at the upper end of our encircled domain, there crept out a narrow and deep… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“The esteemed Reverend Rufus Griswold is everything I aspire to be, though I fear I shall never soar so quite as high… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“You are not wrong, who deem That my days have been a dream... All that we see or seem Is but a… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“In the internal decoration, if not in the external architecture of their residences, the English are supreme. The Italians have but little… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“I have not always been as now: The fever'd diadem on my brow I claim'd and won unsurprisingly- Hath not the same… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“At midnight, in the month of June, I stand beneath the mystic moon.” — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“When I was young and filled with folly, I fell in love with melancholy” — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“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… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
There is no passion in nature so demoniacally impatient, as that of him who, shuddering upon the edge of a precipice, thus meditates a… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“A skillful literary artist has constructed a tale. If wise, he has not fashioned his thoughts to accommodate his incidents; but having conceived, with… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“I have said that the sole effect of my somewhat childish experiment—that of looking down within the tarn—had been to deepen the first singular… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
And all my days are trances, And all my nightly dreams Are where thy dark eye glances, And where thy footstep gleams-- In what… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“Other friends have flown before — On the morrow he will leave me, as my hopes have flown before.” Quoth the raven, “Nevermore.” — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“To the right and left, as far as the eye could reach, there lay outstretched, like ramparts of the world, lines of horridly black… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Men die nightly in their beds, wringing the hands of ghostly confessors ... on account of the hideousness of mysteries which will not suffer… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
