You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.
Submitted on Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 14:30 — GabrielleWho Said It?:E.M. ForsterSource:A Room With A View
Link to full quote: Quote #1924 from A Room With A View by E.M. Forster.
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing,
Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream beforeSubmitted on Tuesday, August 18, 2009 - 18:10 — lucy.Who Said It?:Edgar Allan PoeSource:The Raven
Link to full quote: Quote #2346 from The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe.
While, like a ghastly rapid river,
Through the pale door,
A hideous
throng rush out forever,
And laugh - but smile no more.Submitted on Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 14:29 — GabrielleWho Said It?:Edgar Allan PoeSource:The Haunted Palace
Link to full quote: Quote #1257 from The Haunted Palace by Edgar Allan Poe.
They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Submitted on Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 14:29 — GabrielleWho Said It?:Edgar Allan PoeSource:Eleonora
Link to full quote: Quote #1009 from Eleonora by Edgar Allan Poe.
Yet 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 stupid 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?
Submitted on Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 14:28 — GabrielleWho Said It?:Edgar Allan PoeSource:The Black Cat
Link to full quote: Quote #574 from The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe.
But see, amid the mimic rout
A crawling shape intrude!
A blood-red thing that writhes from out
The scenic solitude!
It writhes!--it writhes!--with mortal pangs
The mimes become its food,
And the angels sob at vermin fangs
In human gore imbued.Submitted on Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 14:28 — GabrielleWho Said It?:Edgar Allan PoeSource:The Conqueror Worm
Link to full quote: Quote #545 from The Conqueror Worm by Edgar Allan Poe.
Ye who read are still among the living; but I who write shall have long since gone my way into the region of shadows.
Submitted on Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 14:28 — GabrielleWho Said It?:Edgar Allan PoeSource:Shadow
Link to full quote: Quote #546 from Shadow by Edgar Allan Poe.
I could not love except where Death
Was mingling his with Beauty's breath ?Submitted on Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 14:28 — GabrielleWho Said It?:Edgar Allan Poe
Link to full quote: Quote #547 from Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poem by Edgar Allan Poe.
My best friend would be the man who gave me a pistol that I might blow out my brains.
Submitted on Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 14:28 — GabrielleWho Said It?:Edgar Allan PoeSource:on his deathbed
Link to full quote: Quote #550 from on his deathbed by Edgar Allan Poe.
And then there stole into my fancy, like a rich musical note, the thought of what sweet rest there must be in the grave.
Submitted on Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 14:28 — GabrielleWho Said It?:Edgar Allan PoeSource:The Pit And The Pendulum
Link to full quote: Quote #526 from The Pit And The Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe.
Eagerly I wished the morrow; --vainly I
had sought to borrow
From my books surcease of sorrow--
sorrow for the lost Lenore--
For the rare and radiant maiden whom
the angels name Lenore--
Nameless here for evermore.Submitted on Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 14:28 — GabrielleWho Said It?:Edgar Allan PoeSource:The Raven
Link to full quote: Quote #432 from The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe.
To conceive the horror of my sensations is, I presume, utterly impossible; yet a curiosity to penetrate the mysteries of these awful regions predominates even over my despair, and will reconcile me to the most hideous aspect of death. It is evident that we are hurrying onward to some exciting knowledge— some never-to-be-imparted secret, whose attainment is destruction.
Submitted on Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 14:28 — GabrielleWho Said It?:Edgar Allan PoeSource:MS. Found in a Bottle
Link to full quote: Quote #324 from MS. Found in a Bottle by Edgar Allan Poe.
Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow--
You are not wrong who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.Submitted on Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 14:28 — GabrielleWho Said It?:Edgar Allan PoeSource:A Dream Within A Dream
Link to full quote: Quote #125 from A Dream Within A Dream by Edgar Allan Poe.
From childhood's hour I have not been
As others were; I have not seen
As others saw; I could not bring
My passions from a common spring.
From the same source I have not taken
My sorrow; I could not awaken
My heart to joy at the same tone;
And all I loved, I loved alone.Submitted on Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 14:28 — GabrielleWho Said It?:Edgar Allan PoeSource:Alone
Link to full quote: Quote #126 from Alone by Edgar Allan Poe.
You die, O thrice desired,
And my desire has flown like a dream,
Gone with you is the girdle of my beauty,But I myself must live who am a goddess
And may not follow you.
Kiss me once again, the last, long kiss,
Until I draw your soul within my lips
And drink down all your love.Submitted on Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 14:29 — GabrielleWho Said It?:Edith HamiltonSource:Mythology
Link to full quote: Quote #1025 from Mythology by Edith Hamilton.
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