Quotes of: Poe Keyword

I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State.

Antigone

All families are psychotic. Everybody has basically the same family - it's just reconfigured slightly different from one to the next.

All Families are Psychotic

It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

W. H. Auden

Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it.

Walter Pater

I escape disaster by writing a poem with a joke in it: The past, present, and future walk into a bar—it was tense.

Hourglass Museum

In fine, that it is not enough to be good, without behaving in such a manner as shall make others acknowledge us to be so.

The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless

The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.

The Interpretation of Dreams

…There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad.

The Iliad

You, you insolent brazen bitch—you really dare to shake that monstrous spear in Father’s face?

The Iliad

...like that star of the waning summer who beyond all stars rises bathed in the ocean stream to glitter in brilliance.

The Iliad

It's all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power, the same way money is power, the same way a gun is power.

Invisible Monsters

Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.

Illuminations: Essays and Reflections

Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, And thou art wedded to calamity.

Romeo and Juliet

When first we met, we did not guess, That love would prove so hard a master...

Robert Bridges: A Collection of Poems

Every time Nyx thought she’d gotten out of the business of killing boys, she shot another one.

Rapture

It was strange how you didn’t realise how much you loved a place until you had lost it completely.

Rapture

She wanted to build a better world. So why did so many others want to keep it just the same?

Rapture

In time you shall see Fate approach you In the shape of your own image in the mirror.

Spoon River Anthology

Strange how paranoia can link up with reality now and then.

A Scanner Darkly

Come here, cat. You wouldn’t want to destroy the space-time continuum, would you? Meow. Meow.

To Say Nothing of the Dog

I had failed to make a gift of myself to God.

The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness