I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
EDGAR ALLAN POEI wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThere are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.
EDGAR ALLAN POEI am a writer. Therefore, I am not sane.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThe ninety and nine are with dreams, content, but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.
EDGAR ALLAN POEWords have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
EDGAR ALLAN POENever to suffer would never to have been blessed.
EDGAR ALLAN POEIf you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
EDGAR ALLAN POEArt is to look at not to criticize.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThe scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.
EDGAR ALLAN POEConvinced myself, I seek not to convince.
EDGAR ALLAN POEI have great faith in fools – self-confidence my friends will call it.
EDGAR ALLAN POENow 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 POEI have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active – not more happy – nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
EDGAR ALLAN POEBooks, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
EDGAR ALLAN POEAnd I fell violently on my face.
EDGAR ALLAN POEEither the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day; or the agonies which are have their origins in ecstasies which might have been.
EDGAR ALLAN POE