Quotes of: Edgar-allan-poe Keyword

Who is to decide which is the grimmer sight: withered hearts, or empty skulls?

Père Goriot

Destiny is the music of the improbable. Were it otherwise, almost anyone could exist.

Poemscapes

The charm of fame is so great, that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.

Pensées

With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible.

Poetics

Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.

Poetics

I just kind of put my feelings away somewhere after that.

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Cancer... the process of creation gone wild, I thought.

Radio Free Albemuth

I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.

Trees & Other Poems

It's a long life, sweetheart, and time heals all wounds.

Torch

I did not begin with craft, I began with strong feelings and worked toward craft.

Trash

Wings are a constraint that makes it possible to fly.

The Tree Of Meaning: Thirteen Talks

If the sleep of reason produces monsters, what does the sleep of unreason produce?

Three Trapped Tigers

It's hard being left behind. (...) It's hard to be the one who stays.

The Time Traveler's Wife

The crisis of community has its source in the corruption of character.

The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture

Racism is a doctrine of, by and for brutes.

The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism

The cries of the dead are terrible indeed; you should try not to hear them.

VALIS

Exactly what the powers of hell feed on: the best instincts in man.

VALIS

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

The Writing Life

Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark.

The Writing Life

Conflict is inevitable but combat is optional.

When God Whispers Your Name

[Poetry] is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.

What is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics