the works & quotes of Edgar Allan Poe ... sentence starters
"And all I loved, I loved alone."
"This it is, and nothing more."
"And I fell violently on my face."
"Even in the grave, all is not lost."
"Truly your forgiveness I implore."
"Suddenly there came a tapping..."
"Darkness there, and nothing more."
"Invisible things are the only realities."
"I have no faith in human perfectibility."
"I have been happy, though in a dream."
"I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat."
"We loved with a love that was more than love."
"I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow."
"I admit the deed! Tear up the planks! Here, here!"
"Never to suffer would never to have been blessed."
"Sleep, those little slices of death... how I loathe them."
"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream."
"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity."
"It is a happiness to wonder⦠it is a happiness to dream."
"Deep in earth, my love is lying⦠And I must weep alone."
"Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see."
"Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December..."
"Years of love have been forgot, in the hatred of a minute."
"The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our soulsβ¦"
"To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!"
"I have great faith in fools... self-confidence my friends will call it."
"She lived with no other thought than to love and be loved by me."
"There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told."
"I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind."
"Tell me every terrible thing you ever did, and let me love you anyway."
"I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results."
"I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell."
"There is no exquisite beauty⦠without some strangeness in the proportion."
"That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses."
"I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched."
"But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceededβ¦"
"I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him."
"I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge."
"Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality."
"All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry."
"But our love, it was stronger, by far, than the love of those who were older than we, of many far wiser than we."
"Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence."
"Who has not, a hundred times, found himself committing a vile or silly action for no other reason than because he knows he should not?"
