Quotes of: Edgar-allan-poe Keyword

Raven: The Reverend Mr Larynx has been called off on duty, to marry or bury (I don't know which) some unfortunate person or persons, at Claydyke:...

Nightmare Abbey

If we go on in this way, we shall have a new art of poetry, of which one of the first rules will be: To remember to forget that there are any such things as sunshine and music in the world.

Nightmare Abbey

She discovered, when it was too late, that she had mistaken the means for the end—that riches, rightly used, are instruments of happiness, but are not in themselves happiness.

Nightmare Abbey

Oh Lord, make us able To eat all that's on this table, And if there's some we haven't got Bring it to us while it's hot

Nathan Coulter

Imagination is the true magic carpet.

Norman Vincent Peale: Three Complete Books: The Power of Positive Thinking; The Positive Principle Today; Enthusiasm Makes the Difference

Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit.

The Nicomachean Ethics

These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions ... The good of man is a working of the soul in the way of excellence in a complete life.

The Nicomachean Ethics

Virtue lies in our power, and similarly so does vice; because where it is in our power to act, it is also in our power not to act...

The Nicomachean Ethics

Your future is uncertain, and I can tell you nothing that can help you. You are singular and dangerous, and so it is that you are sought by both the Dark and the Light.

The Naming

...she felt as if her entire body were glowing with the taste of sunlight, of wind blowing in wide spaces and trees reaching their burdened arms to boundless skies.

The Naming

...because my life without you would be a place of parched and broken trees...

New and Selected Poems, Volume One

I realized that it was not that I didn’t want to go on without him. I did. It was just that I didn’t know why I wanted to go on

Nothing Was the Same

So please, for the love of gender- go bloom. Or water someone else while they do.

The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You

In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence.

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

Sometimes history cleaves and for one helpless moment stands still like the pause when the ax splits a log and the two halves rest on end waiting to fall.

The Lacuna

I almost never respect men. They're like flowers -- all show, a lot of color and lust. You pick them and throw them on the ground.

The Lacuna

I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.

The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction

The friend I can trust is the one who will let me have my death. The rest are actors who want me to stay and further the plot.

Leaflets

Why do we fear the dark as unavoidable defeat when it alone is constant, and we'd starve if it stopped watering the lawn of dreams.

Lawn of Excluded Middle

...but it is good to be several floors up in the dead of night wondering whether you are any good or not and the only decision you can make is that you did it...

Lunch Poems

I wonder why people work so hard to become politicians just in order to do something wrong.

Lieutenant Lockeast, And Other Stories