More Quotes by Edgar Allan Poe
I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom.
Always keep a big bottle of booze at your side. If a bird starts talking nonsense to you in the middle of the night pour yourself a stiff drink.
Democracy is a very admirable form of government - for dogs
If you run out of ideas follow the road; you'll get there
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
If a poem hasn't ripped apart your soul; you haven't experienced poetry.
To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.
The past is a pebble in my shoe.
I have great faith in fools,— self-confidence my friends will call it.
Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.
