Quotes of: Edgar-allan-poe Keyword

He judged the instant and let go; he flung himself loose into the stars.

Annie Dillard

It doesn't seem to me strange that children should like the macabre, the sensational, and the forbidden.

Anthony Hecht

A lover may be a shadowy creature, but husbands are made of flesh and blood.

Amy Levy

You are ice and fire the touch of you burns my hands like snow.

Amy Lowell

I've found a different way to scent the air: already it's a by-word for despair.

Andrew Motion

You see the names of places roundabout? They're mine now, and I've turned them inside out.

Andrew Motion

These places, and the ancient things you know, You won't know soon. I'm working on it now.'

Andrew Motion

I am afraid of the future; it seems to be a big box waiting for me.

Audrey Niffenegger

Most spiders eat and remake their webs every night.

Alice Oswald

Spring, when the earth tilts closer to the sun, runs a strict timetable of flowers.

Alice Oswald

Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.

Adrienne Rich

The mind's passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.

Adrienne Rich

Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.

Aristotle

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

Aristotle

Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!

Arthur Rimbaud

Tis the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Aristotle

Criticism is something you can easily avoid — by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Aristotle

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.

Aristotle

The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.

Aristotle

Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.

Anne Sexton

But now, you are twain, you are cloven apart Flesh of his flesh, but heart of my heart.

Algernon Charles Swinburne