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I saw no heaven - but in her eyes. — Edgar Allan Poe

Invisible things are the only realities. — Edgar Allan Poe

Words like "patience", and "kindness", and "goodness". They are the words of a hero. — Mark Andrew Poe

Lord help my poor soul. — Edgar Allan Poe

And I fell violently on my face. — Edgar Allan Poe

He knew that Hop-Frog was not fond of wine; for it excited the poor cripple almost to madness; and madness is no comfortable feeling. — Edgar Allan Poe

I'm compared to Kerouac, I suppose, because he traveled and rejected middle-class values, but the similarities end there. — Poe Ballantine

On the morrow he will leave me as my hopes have flown before. — Edgar Allan Poe

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant. — Edgar Allan Poe

Think of my rants and posts as they would come from Edgar, Vincent, and Dali. — Solange Nicole

Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!"
Quoth the raven, "Nevermore. — Edgar Allan Poe

The agony of my soul found vent in one loud, long and final scream of despair. — Edgar Allan Poe

Children are never too tender to be whipped. Like tough beefsteaks, the more you beat them, the more tender they become. — Edgar Allan Poe

In the marginalia ... we talk only to ourselves; we therefore talk freshly - boldly - originally - with abandonment - without conceit. — Edgar Allan Poe

To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths! — Edgar Allan Poe

No time for monsters. — Mark Andrew Poe

For years your name never passed my lips, while my soul drank in, with a delirious thirst, all that was uttered in my presence respecting you ... — Edgar Allan Poe

That fitful strain of melancholy which will ever be found inseperable from the perfection of the beautiful. — Edgar Allan Poe

The siblings wished that if Mr. Poe were really jealous of them he would attend Prufrock Preparatory School himself, and they could work at the bank. — Lemony Snicket

The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls ... — Edgar Allan Poe

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity. — Edgar Allan Poe

One important idea I hope is reflected in 'The Poe Shadow' is that fiction can add as much to history as nonfiction does. — Matthew Pearl

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

You will observe that the stories told are all about money-seekers, not about money-finders. — Edgar Allan Poe

This magic does not work with anger. — Mark Andrew Poe

To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness. — Edgar Allan Poe

The viol, the violet, and the vine.
Resignedly beneath the sky — Edgar Allan Poe

Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute. — Edgar Allan Poe

Human ingenuity could not construct a cipher which human ingenuity could not solve. — Edgar Allan Poe

It would be mockery to call such dreariness heaven at all. — Edgar Allan Poe

Heroes can lose their way. Sometimes, heroes can go missing from even themselves. Have you ever had that feeling in your own life? — Mark Andrew Poe

Don't be afraid of the dark. — Mark Andrew Poe

If I'm too old to be Emo, how do you account for the very Emo and very old Edgar Allan Poe? Checkmate! — John Green

And then there stole into my fancy, like a rich musical note, the thought of what sweet rest there must be in the grave. — Edgar Allan Poe

His heart is a suspended lute; As soon as you touch it, it resonates. — Edgar Allan Poe

It is evident that we are hurrying onward to some exciting knowledge - some never-to-be-imparted secret, whose attainment is destruction. — Edgar Allan Poe

No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce. — H.P. Lovecraft

Long suffering had nearly annihilated all my ordinary powers of mind. I was an imbecile - an idiot. — Edgar Allan Poe

And boyhood is a summer sun / Whose waning is the dreariest one
/ For all we live to know is known, / And all we seek to keep hath flown
— Edgar Allan Poe

I love me a good sheep. — Edgar Allan Poe

In reading some books we occupy ourselves chiefly with the thoughts of the author; in perusing others, exclusively with our own. — Edgar Allan Poe

Have been sufficient to establish its real character. Indeed, however — Edgar Allan Poe

Indeed, there is an eloquence in true enthusiasm that is not to be doubted. — Edgar Allan Poe

The sky was the color of Edgar Allen Poe's pajamas. — Tom Robbins

Sometimes I'm terrified of my heart; of its constant hunger for whatever it is it wants. The way it stops and starts. — Edgar Allan Poe

Poe gives the sense for the first time in America, that literature is serious, not a matter of courtesy but of truth. — William Carlos Williams

I hold that a long poem does not exist. I maintain that the phrase, "a long poem," is simply a flat contradiction in terms. — Edgar Allan Poe

In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it. — Edgar Allan Poe

Be nothing which thou art not — Edgar Allan Poe

Thank Heaven! The crisis /The danger is past, and the lingering illness, is over at last /, and the fever called 'Living' is conquered at last. — Edgar Allan Poe

Villains!' I shrieked. 'Dissemble no more! I admit the deed! Tear up the planks! Here, here! It is the beating of his hideous heart! — Edgar Allan Poe

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 ... — Edgar Allan Poe

If in many of my productions terror has been the thesis, I maintain that terror is not of Germany, but of the soul. — Edgar Allan Poe

It is a happiness to wonder;
it is a happiness to dream. — Edgar Allan Poe

It was my choice or chance or curse To adopt the cause for better or worse And with my worldly goods & wit And soul & body worship it - — Edgar Allan Poe

It was all Mrs. Waddington could do to refrain from hurling a bust of Edgar Allan Poe at her head. — P.G. Wodehouse

If [a short story author's] very initial sentence tend not to the out bringing of this effect, then he has failed in his first step. — Edgar Allan Poe

A fool, for example, thinks Shakespeare a great poet ... yet the fool has never read Shakespeare. — Edgar Allan Poe

I call to mind flatness and dampness; and then all is madness - the madness of a memory which busies itself among forbidden things. — Edgar Allan Poe

He who pleases is of more importance to his fellow man than he who instructs. — Edgar Allan Poe

Never to suffer would never to have been blessed. — Edgar Allan Poe

Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allan Poe. — John Lennon

The plots of God are perfect. The Universe is a plot of God. — Edgar Allan Poe

When I was 12, I had a fondness for horror movies like the 'Wolfman.' The boy next door said I should read Poe. — Donald Hall

I first came across Chadron, Nebraska, by accident in 1994. — Poe Ballantine

to do wrong for the wrong's sake only — Edgar Allan Poe

Western Nebraska is the only place in all my travels where I have seen the dust blowing and the rain falling at the same time. — Poe Ballantine

A poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul. — Edgar Allan Poe

He must be theory-mad beyond redemption who ... shall ... persist in attempting to reconcile the obstinate oils and waters of Poetry and Truth. — Edgar Allan Poe

It illuminated a vision Dante could not have imagined in his wildest nightmares, nor Poe in the grasp of an uncontrollable delirium. — Alan Dean Foster

It was many and many a year ago, in a kingdom by the sea ... — Edgar Allan Poe

And if Poe were alive, he would not have to invent horror; horror would invent him. — Richard Wright

Stupidity is a talent for misconception. — Edgar Allan Poe

Once upon a midnight dreary — Edgar Allan Poe

Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore. — Edgar Allan Poe

Why speed life up? There is so precious little of it. — Mark Andrew Poe

I'm a writer. Therefore, I am not sane. — Edgar Allan Poe

I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind — Edgar Allan Poe

The Prince of the Air may rule the world, but last I checked the Great Magician still owns the place. — Mark Andrew Poe

E. A. Poe defines a short story as readable in a single sitting. I imagine a "single sitting" was longer back in his day. But I digress again. — Gabrielle Zevin

I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror. — Edgar Allan Poe

Poe is the only impeccable writer. He was never mistaken. — Paul Valery

I would like to see the technology used to explore more period horror genre works, for example, E. A. Poe. — Robert Englund

When I was a teenager, I read a lot of Poe. — Dario Argento

Understanding that, I know I have not seen a ghost. I am not mad. It is something more extraordinary than that. I have made a mistake! — Avi

For passion must, with youth, expire. — Edgar Allan Poe

Man is an animal that diddles, and there is no animal that diddles but man. — Edgar Allan Poe

Trust to the fickle star within. — Edgar Allan Poe

I'm just sayin'. I've have been around this block a lot longer than Siri. — Mark Andrew Poe

I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth.I heard many things in hell. — Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allen Poe really started me when I was 8. I fell in love with everything of his. — Ray Bradbury

It was well said of a certain German book that 'er lasst sich nicht lesen" - it does not permit itself to be read. — Edgar Allan Poe

People are transported to that space that Poe wanted to make available to us. — John Astin

Grammar is the analysis of language. — Edgar Allan Poe

But Psyche uplifting her finger said: Sadly this star I mistrust — Edgar Allan Poe

I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it. — Edgar Allan Poe

Mr. Snow.'
'Detective Winter.'
'Do you give all of the men in your life a murder case for Christmas, or just the really special ones? — C.S. Poe

I allowed him to carry me down the stairs but was surprised when he didn't make it to the sofa. — K.A. Poe

Remember your magic. — Mark Andrew Poe

One life is worth the universe. Poe was able to go right into the very depth of life and to demonstrate this. — John Astin