Quotes of: Edgar-allan-poe Keyword

Crippled and crazy, we hobble toward the finish line, pen in hand.

The Sorrows of an American

the much-sought prize of eternal youth Is just arrested growth.

Spoon River Anthology

The most dangerous kind of person... is one who is afraid of his own shadow.

A Scanner Darkly

This was long before the term 'single-parent family' came into use; back then it was a 'broken home'...

The Sense of an Ending

The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.

The Selfish Gene

something about giving himself over to a woman was worse than having lunch with the devil...

So Far from God

...the nose is generally the organ in which stupidity is most readily displayed.

Sodom and Gomorrah

Ale, man, Ale's the stuff to drink, for fellows whom it hurts to think.

A Shropshire Lad

But one way or another competing and weeding takes place . . . or a race goes downhill.

Stranger in a Strange Land

And the testicles of the fathers hang down like old lace

New and Selected Poems, 1923-1985

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.

The Nicomachean Ethics

She ached: oh, how she ached. Her soul was like one big bruise.

The Naming

And all meet in singing, which braids together the different knowings into a wide and subtle music, the music of living.

The Naming

The river plunged down in a long waterfall, plashing into several rocky pools on its way down the cliff.

The Naming

. . . things whose perishing had been arrested by their power to make her love them.

The Name of the World

Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man.

The Odyssey

Poetry is, among other things, a criticism of language.

On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose, 1966-1978

...when the public nerve is aroused, the most impressive capacity of man is his skill for lying.

The Lacuna

Outside in the sun the Holy Mother stood on her pedestal in the garden, sorry but unsympathetic. The usual position of mothers.

The Lacuna

If Beauty is excuse enough for Being, it sure takes Plainness then to feel the real necessity for—Doing.

Little Eve Edgarton

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

Lean In for Graduates