If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
If in many of my productions terror has been the thesis, I maintain that terror is not of Germany, but of the… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Life is for the strong, to be lived by the strong and if need be, taken by the strong. The weak were… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Always keep a big bottle of booze at your side. If a bird starts talking nonsense to you in the middle of… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
The most natural, and, consequently, the truest and most intense of the human affections are those which arise in the heart as… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
If the propositions of this Discourse are tenable, the "state of progressive collapse" is precisely that state in which alone we are… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“If I could dwell where Israfel hath dwelt and he where I he might not sing so wildly well a mortal melody… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
If you have never been at sea in a heavy gale, you can form no idea of the confusion of mind occasioned… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
I fashion the expression of my face, as accurately as possible, in accordance with the expression of his, and then wait to… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
If I venture to displace ... the microscopical speck of dust... on the point of my finger,... I have done a deed… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
If we examine a work of ordinary art, by means of a powerful microscope, all traces of resemblance to nature will disappear… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
There is then no analogy whatever between the operations of the Chess-Player, and those of the calculating machine of Mr. Babbage ,… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
I might refer at once, if necessary, to a hundred well authenticated instances. One of very remarkable character, and of which the… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“And because our reason violently deters us from the brink, therefore, do we the more impetuously approach it. There is no passion… — 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
