Most people would live in an outhouse in Bangladesh before they would voluntarily move to Nebraska.


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Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou,” I said, “art sure no craven, Ghastly grim and ancie...
EDGAR ALLAN POE
Prophet!” said I, “thing of evil! — prophet still, if bird or devil! — Whether Tempter sen...
EDGAR ALLAN POE
Leave my loneliness unbroken!—quit the bust above my door!
EDGAR ALLAN POE
Lenore — For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore — Nameless
EDGAR ALLAN POE
And the raven quote, nevermore.
EDGAR ALLAN POE
Actually, I do have doubts, all the time. Any thinking person does. There are so many sides to every...
EDGAR ALLAN POE
Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend!” I shrieked, upstarting—
“Get thee back ...
EDGAR ALLAN POE
Darkness there, and nothing more.
EDGAR ALLAN POE
Tell me truly, I implore-- Is there-- is there balm in Gilead?--tell me--tell me, I implore!
EDGAR ALLAN POE
Other friends have flown before — On the morrow he will leave me, as my hopes have flown before.�...
EDGAR ALLAN POE
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing,
Doubting, dreaming drea...
EDGAR ALLAN POE
Here I opened wide the door;— Darkness there, and nothing more.
EDGAR ALLAN POE
Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer
Swung by Seraphim whose fo...
EDGAR ALLAN POE
Leave my loneliness unbroken
EDGAR ALLAN POE
Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore...
EDGAR ALLAN POE
Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore.
EDGAR ALLAN POE
I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.
EDGAR ALLAN POE
The Tell Tale Poe
EDGAR ALLAN POE
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.
EDGAR ALLAN POE
years of love have been forgot, in the hatred of a minute.
EDGAR ALLAN POE
We now demand the light artillery of the intellect; we need the curt, the condensed, the pointed, th...
EDGAR ALLAN POE
There was much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible,...
EDGAR ALLAN POE
I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect...
EDGAR ALLAN POE
The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
EDGAR ALLAN POE
Lord help my poor soul.
EDGAR ALLAN POE
A hero is someone who is selfless.
MARK ANDREW POE
If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thou...
EDGAR ALLAN POE
That I scarce was sure I heard you- here I opened wide the door;- Darkness there, and nothing more.
EDGAR ALLAN POE
I am ugly.
EDGAR ALLAN POE
The angels, whispering to one another Can find, among their burning terms of love, None so devotiona...
EDGAR ALLAN POE
On the morrow he will leave me, as my hopes have flown before. Then the bird said "Nevermore.
EDGAR ALLAN POE
[Soon] Gothic ... hidden vices and perversions behind the veneer of virtue.
EDGAR ALLAN POE
To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness
EDGAR ALLAN POE
A valet, of stealthy step, thence conducted me, in silence, through many dark and intricate passages...
EDGAR ALLAN POE
Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portio...
EDGAR ALLAN POE
I was never really insane, except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
EDGAR ALLAN POE
That is another of your odd notions," said the Prefect, who had a fashion of calling every thing "od...
EDGAR ALLAN POE
The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at onc...
EDGAR ALLAN POE
True, nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am, but why will say that I am mad?! The...
EDGAR ALLAN POE
Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
EDGAR ALLAN POE