Quotes of: Edgar-allan-poe Keyword

Angels, angels, always near, protecting you, my special dear!

Angels

No one loves the messenger who brings bad news.

Antigone

There is no greater evil than men's failure to consult and to consider.

Antigone

A city which belongs to just one man is no true city

Antigone

'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'

W. H. Auden

The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion.

Walter Benjamin

and everyone wants to read the poem we’re afraid to write.

Hourglass Museum

Maybe I’m still the mermaid. Maybe the ocean is your hand.

Hourglass Museum

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Parenting is something that happens mostly while you’re thinking of something else.

Homeland and Other Stories

Beauty! Terrible Beauty! A deathless Goddess-- so she strikes our eyes!

The Iliad

I shed more tears than God could ever have required.

Illuminations

The sort of words a man says is the sort he hears in return.

The Iliad

And in the sin of wanting always to be right, the punishment is knowing it isn't possible.

Invisible Tender

She isn't here, but around here, in a deep rain disappearing.

Invisible Tender

Fuck the epistemic modality; this is alethic modality we’re talking now, not factuality but possibility.

Rhapsody: Notes on Strange Fictions

You started caring about somebody, you did stupid things.

Rapture

We must rewrite our story from one of fear to one of celebration.

Rapture

What were all of them, really, but bits of something else? Bits of stars?

Rapture

Act well your part, there all the honor lies.

Spoon River Anthology

Cats, as you know, are quite impervious to threats.

To Say Nothing of the Dog