01UndatedI do believe God gave me a spark of genius, but he quenched it in misery.Edgar Allan Poe / quote ↗
02UndatedYou will observe that the stories told are all about money-seekers, not about money-finders.Edgar Allan Poe / quote ↗
03UndatedYet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart - one of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give direction to the character of Man. Who has not, a hundred times, found himself committing a vile or a silly action, for no other reason than because he knows he should not? Have we not a perpetual inclination, in the teeth of our best judgment, to violate that which is Law, merely because we understand it to be such?Edgar Allan Poe / quote ↗
04UndatedIt is more than probable that I am not understood; but I fear, indeed, that it is in no manner possible to convey to the mind of the merely general reader, an adequate idea of that nervous intensity of interest with which, in my case, the powers of meditation (not to speak technically) busied and buried themselves, in the contemplation of even the most ordinary objects of the universe.Edgar Allan Poe / quote ↗
05UndatedSo resolute is the world to despise anything which carries with it an air of simplicity.Edgar Allan Poe / quote ↗
06UndatedAh, dream too bright to last! Ah, starry Hope! that didst arise But to be overcast! A voice from out the Future cries, "On! on!" — but o'er the Past (Dim gulf!) my spirit hovering lies Mute, motionless, aghast.Edgar Allan Poe / quote ↗
07UndatedAh, not in knowledge is happiness, but in the acquisition of knowledge! In forever knowing, we are forever blessed; but to know all, were the curse of a fiend.Edgar Allan Poe / quote ↗
08UndatedThen, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censerSwung by Seraphim whose footfalls tinkled on the tufted floor."Wretch," I cried, "thy God hath lent thee--by these angels he hath sent thee--Respite--respite and nepenthe from thy memories of Lenore!Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe, and forget this lost Lenore!"Quothe the Raven, "Nevermore.Edgar Allan Poe / quote ↗
09UndatedHow had I deserved to be so blessed by such confessions? —how had I deserved to be so cursed with the removal of my beloved in the hour of her making them, But upon this subject I cannot bear to dilate.Edgar Allan Poe / quote ↗
11UndatedMisery is manifold. The wretchedness of earth is multiform. Overreaching the wide horizon as the rainbow, its hues are as various as the hues of that arch, --as distinct too, yet as intimately blended. Overreaching the wide horizon as the rainbow! How is it that from beauty I have derived a type of unloveliness? --from the covenant of peace a simile of sorrow? But as, in ethics, evil is a consequence of good, so, in fact, out of joy is sorrow born. Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day, or the agonies which are have their origin in the ecstasies which might have been.Edgar Allan Poe / quote ↗
12UndatedIn death - no! even in the grave all is not lost. Else there is no immortality for man. Arousing from the most profound slumbers, we break the gossamer web of some dream. Yet in a second afterward, (so frail may that web have been) we remember not that we have dreamed.Edgar Allan Poe / quote ↗
13UndatedIf you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.Edgar Allan Poe / quote ↗
14UndatedIn our endeavors to recall to memory something long forgotten, we often find ourselves upon the very verge of remembrance, without being able, in the end, to remember.Edgar Allan Poe / quote ↗
15UndatedHorrors of a nature most stern and most appalling would too frequently obtrude themselves upon my mind, and shake the innermost depths of my soul with the bare supposition of their possibility.Edgar Allan Poe / quote ↗
16UndatedFrom childhood's hour I have not beenAs others were - I have not seenAs others saw - I could not bringMy passions from a common spring -Edgar Allan Poe / quote ↗
17UndatedThat single thought is enough. The impulse increases to a wish, the wish to a desire, the desire to an uncontrollable longing, and the longing (to the deep regret and mortification of the speaker, and in defiance of all consequences,) is indulged.Edgar Allan Poe / quote ↗
18UndatedIt all depends on the robber's knowledge of the loser's knowledge of the robber. - DaupinEdgar Allan Poe / quote ↗
19UndatedThere are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told. Men die nightly in their beds, wringing the hands of ghostly confessors, and looking them piteously in the eyes — die with despair of heart and convulsion of throat, on account of the hideousness of mysteries which will not suffer themselves to be revealed.Edgar Allan Poe / quote ↗
20UndatedI have before suggested that a genuine blackguard is never without a pocket-handkerchief.Edgar Allan Poe / quote ↗
22UndatedAnd thus, as a closer and still closer intimacy admitted me more unreservedly into recesses if his spirit, the more bitterly did I perceive the futility of all attempt at cheering a mind from which darkness, as if an inherent positive quality, poured forth upon all objects of the moral and physical universe in one unceasing radiation of gloom.Edgar Allan Poe / quote ↗
24UndatedEven with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made.Edgar Allan Poe / quote ↗
