Even for those to whom life and death are equal jests. There are some things that are still held in respect. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“In a night such as is this to me, a man lives-lives a whole century of life-nor would I forgo this rapturous… — 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
The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
There are two bodies - the rudimental and the complete; corresponding with the two conditions of the worm and the butterfly. What… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“Be silent in that solitude Which is not loneliness - for then The spirits of the dead who stood In… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Thou wouldst be loved? - then let thy heart From its present pathway part not! Being everything which now thou art, Be… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
No pictorial or sculptural combinations of points of human loveliness, do more than approach the living and breathing human beauty as it… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“In the strange anomaly of my existence, feelings with me had never been of the heart, and my passions always were of… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion, even by the utterly lost, to… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
I have made no money. I am as poor now as ever I was in my life - except in hope, which… — 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
