edgar allen poe Quotes

“Your friend always,” EDGAR A. POE.

I determined to depart, yet live—to leave the world, yet continue to exist—

He appeared extremely uneasy, looking anxiously around him, fluttering his wings, and making a loud cooing noise, but could not be persuaded to trust himself from off the car.

Below me in the ocean lay a cluster of black specks, which undoubtedly were islands.

I breathed, however, at every moment, with more and more difficulty, and each inhalation was attended with a troublesome spasmodic action of the chest.

But the Marchesa! She will now receive her child—she will press it to her heart—she will cling to its little form, and smother it with her caresses.

“I see, I see you are astonished at my apartment—at my statues—my pictures—my originality of conception in architecture and upholstery! absolutely drunk, eh, with my magnificence?

“I have no right to be merry at your expense. You might well have been amazed.

From me, and from our misty clime,Where weeps the silver willow!

For the occasional scene nothing can be better—for the constant view nothing worse.

Shakespeare is in possession of the world’s good opinion, and yet Shakespeare is the greatest of poets.

A fool thinks Shakespeare a great poet—yet the fool has never read Shakespeare.”