Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made.
Weitere Zitate von Edgar Allan Poe
Zum Autor"Horrors 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."
"In beauty of face no maiden ever equaled her. It was the radiance of an opium-dream - an airy and spirit-lifting vision more wildly divine than the fantasies which hovered about the slumbering souls of the daughters of Delos."
"It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial."
"A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it."
"Lord help my poor soul."
"The grandeur that was Rome."