And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.
EDGAR ALLAN POEAnd so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.
EDGAR ALLAN POENever to suffer would never to have been blessed.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThat man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
EDGAR ALLAN POEI remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.
EDGAR ALLAN POEWhere the good and the bad and the worst and the best have gone to their eternal rest.
EDGAR ALLAN POEAh, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December; And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
EDGAR ALLAN POEWhen a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket.
EDGAR ALLAN POEBeauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
EDGAR ALLAN POEPoetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThe boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
EDGAR ALLAN POEIt is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
EDGAR ALLAN POEIn efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
EDGAR ALLAN POETo elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.
EDGAR ALLAN POEA man’s grammar, like Caesar’s wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThe eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThe true genius shudders at incompleteness – imperfection – and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.
EDGAR ALLAN POE