“ I have before suggested that a genuine blackguard is never without a pocket-handkerchief. Edgar Allan Poe
“ Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence. Edgar Allan Poe
“ To HelenI saw thee once-once only-years ago;I must not say how many-but not many.It was a july midnight; and from outA full-orbed moon, that, like thine own soul, soaring,Sought a precipitate pathway… Edgar Allan Poe
“ I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the de… Edgar Allan Poe
“ I was a child and she was a child, In this kingdom by the sea,But we loved with a love that was more than love— I and my Annabel Lee— Edgar Allan Poe
“ I have been happy, though in a dream.I have been happy-and I love the theme:Dreams! in their vivid colouring of lifeAs in that fleeting, shadowy, misty strife Edgar Allan Poe
“ I Hear the sledges with the bells - Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night! While the stars that oversprinkle All the… Edgar Allan Poe
“ To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness. Edgar Allan Poe
“ The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body; and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrilled eve… Edgar Allan Poe
“ The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world. Edgar Allan Poe
“ It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream. Edgar Allan Poe
“ All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry. Edgar Allan Poe
“ We have a task before us which must be speedily performed. We know that it will be ruinous to make delay. The most important crisis of our life calls, trumpet-tongued, for immediate energy and action.… Edgar Allan Poe
