Edgar Allan Poe {Sentence Starters}
“Lord, help my poor soul.”
“If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.”
“All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.”
“With me, poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.”
“To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can, himself, attain greatness.”
“Very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?”
“We loved with a love that was more than love.”
“Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.”
“I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.”
“I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.”
“It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.”
“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
“The boundaries which divide Life from Death are, at best, shadowy and vague.”
“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
“I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.”
“Stupidity is a talent for misconception.”
