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#1

“Sleep, those little slices of death — how I loathe them.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: death, sleep

2518 likes

#2

“I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

1604 likes

#3

“All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: irreligion, organized-religion, religion

2012 likes

#4

“With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: poetry

775 likes

#5

“Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: adversity, contrast

2155 likes

#6

“If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: forget, memory, mnemonic-help

1713 likes

#7

“Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: comedy, horror, misattributed-ben-franklin

3621 likes

#8

“Sometimes I’m terrified of my heart; of its constant hunger for whatever it is it wants. The way it stops and starts.”
― Poe

tags: lyrics, misattributed-edgar-allan-poe

1771 likes

#9

“The past is a pebble in my shoe.”
― Poe

tags: lyrics, misattributed-edgar-allan-poe, poe-singer

519 likes

#10

“The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: beauty, death, poetry, women

1045 likes

#11

“To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: misquote, poetry

524 likes

#12

“A woman being never at a loss... the devil always sticks by them.”
― George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron: Selected Letters and Journals

tags: devil, lord-byron, misattributed-edgar-allan-poe, woman

144 likes

#13

“And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

1471 likes

#14

“I wish to weep
but sorrow is
stupid.
I wish to believe
but belief is a
graveyard.”
― Charles Bukowski, What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire

tags: belief, life, perseverance, pessimism, sorrow, weeping

755 likes

#15

“love be damned now
as love was damned when it
first arrived.”
― Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last

267 likes

#16

“unless the sun inside you is burning your gut, don't do it”
― charles bukowski

tags: writing

284 likes

#17

“Don't try.”
― Charles Bukowski

tags: on-his-gravestone

152 likes

#18

“The crazy ones only laugh when there is no reason to laugh.”
― Charles Bukowski

339 likes

#19

“I hope that death contains
less than this.”
― Charles Bukowski, Love Is a Dog from Hell

246 likes

#20

“I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.”
― Charles Bukowski, Love Is a Dog from Hell

3733 likes

#21

“New Year's Eve always terrifies me.”
― Charles Bukowski, Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame

177 likes

#22

“Whores are natural”
― Charles Bukowski

95 likes

#23

“and love was lightning and remembrance”
― Charles Bukowski, The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems, 1946-1966

103 likes

#24

“they say that
nothing is wasted:
either that
or
it al is”
― Charles Bukowski

94 likes

#25

“people run from rain but
sit
in bathtubs full of
water.”
― Charles Bukowski, The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems, 1946-1966

621 likes

#26

“And that's what love is, I suppose. The one thing that is most worth hoping for, and the one thing that's most surprising when it lands. Because it's better. It exceeds hope, makes hope nearsighted.”
― Jessica Soffer, Tomorrow There Will Be Apricots

tags: hope, love

6 likes

#27

“Everything's a story - You are a story -I am a story.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess

619 likes

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