Mrs. Poe Quotes

“First you must believe there is a soul."

"Do you?"

"If by a soul one means the creature who lives within each of us, a creature born loving, born joyful, but who with each wordly blow shrinks more deeply into its shell until at last, the poor desiccated thing is unrecognizable, even to its own self, yes. I do.”
― Lynn Cullen, Mrs. Poe

“The principled man is merely one whose ancestors were ruthlessly unprincipled, affording him the option of acting upon fine sentiments.”
― Lynn Cullen, Mrs. Poe

“Madness,” he said quietly, “is as a drop of ink in water. It sends sly tendrils from the afflicted person into everyone around until all are shaded in black. Soon one does not know who is mad and who is not.”
― Lynn Cullen, Mrs. Poe

“It is as if producing a creative work tears a piece from your soul. When it is ripped completely free of you, the wound must bleed for a while. How similar it is to letting go of a dream, your hope, or your heart’s desire. You must open up and let it drain.”
― Lynn Cullen, Mrs. Poe

“Tell me,” said Miss Fuller, “who is behind a great woman?” She looked around our circle, then stopped at me. “That’s right. No one. She has to get there by herself.”
― Lynn Cullen, Mrs. Poe

“People want to be titillated or frightened. They don't want to think.”
― Lynn Cullen, Mrs. Poe

“You and I are poets, Mrs. Osgood. Our job is to raise questions, not to answer them.”
― Lynn Cullen, Mrs. Poe

“Fortunate is the person who can succeed in extracting honey from such a flower as this life, whose root and every petal is bitterness.”
― Lynn Cullen, Mrs. Poe

“Pay attention to fate, Mrs. Osgood. It will always have the last word.”
― Lynn Cullen, Mrs. Poe

“What did I expect him to say--that he would leave his wife? To do so was the province of fiction. Real life was not as easy as that.”
― Lynn Cullen, Mrs. Poe

“Whenever you see this much wealth, assume that someone dirtied his hands. Fortunes don’t come to saints.”
― Lynn Cullen, Mrs. Poe

“Did Mr. Poe write as a boy?

Dear me, yes. It was all he had, what with losing his mother as a toddling child and then being cast aside by his foster father. I think sometimes his pen was his only friend in the world”
― Lynn Cullen, Mrs. Poe

“I find that the thoughts spoken between the lines are the most important parts of a poem or story.”
― Lynn Cullen, Mrs. Poe

“Whenever you see this much wealth, assume that someone dirtied his hands. Fortunes don't come to saints.”
― Lynn Cullen, Mrs. Poe

“If by a soul one means the creature who lives within each of us, a creature born loving, born joyful, but who with each worldly blow shrinks more deeply into its shell until at last, the poor desiccated thing is unrecognizable even to its own self, yes. I do.”
― Lynn Cullen, Mrs. Poe

“Americans are being poisoned, all in the name of profit, producing a weak-minded race of people who are given to lust and desire.”
― Lynn Cullen, Mrs. Poe

“I was touched," he said quietly," by your remark about seeing one another's souls."

"Do you believe that's possible?"

"First you must believe there is a soul."

"Do you?"

"If by a soul one means the creature who lives within each of us, a creature born loving, born joyful, but who with each worldly blow shrinks more deeply into its shell until at last, the poor desiccated thing is unrecognizable even to its own self, yes. I do.”
― Lynn Cullen, Mrs. Poe

“I am a poet. Words are my currency.”
― Lynn Cullen, Mrs. Poe

“Pay attention to fate, Mrs. Osgood. It will always have the last word.” I”
― Lynn Cullen, Mrs. Poe

“The lady doth protest too much, methinks.’ ”
― Lynn Cullen, Mrs. Poe

“I had come to realize that you must do what you must for your children, even it if called for the sacrifice of your very soul.”
― Lynn Cullen, Mrs. Poe

“Why are we doomed to crave most that which we cannot have?”
― Lynn Cullen, Mrs. Poe

“He was as uncontainable as a handful of water: if you squeezed, it trickled away.”
― Lynn Cullen, Mrs. Poe

“It is my belief that marriage is made holy by two souls in communion, not by the order of the law.”
― Lynn Cullen, Mrs. Poe

“Is there an aphrodisiac more powerful than forbidden fruit hanging just out of reach?”
― Lynn Cullen, Mrs. Poe

“History has a way of forgetting the mistresses of great men. Even if they have talent.”
― Lynn Cullen, Mrs. Poe

“Desire inspires us to be our very best.”
― Lynn Cullen, Mrs. Poe

“Greed and our food supply. It is greed that compels dairymen to skim every bit of goodness from milk to make other products and then to fill the swill left with chalk and sell it at profit. Greed tempts butchers to grind up the meat of sick cows with well ones and mix it into sausage along with offal and dung to extend the amount of 'meat' that they can sell. Greed motivates bakers to use flour devoid of the wheat germ and the nutritious outer husk and to add alum and chlorine to make bread look whiter and to cook faster. Americans are being poisoned, all in the name of profit, producing a weak-minded race of people who are given to lust and desire.”
― Lynn Cullen, Mrs. Poe

“The commonplace deserves every bit as much attention as the sublime.”
― Lynn Cullen, Mrs. Poe

“How quickly the world changes, yet we are so busy trying to live that we don't notice it. And yet, it does not change quickly enough.”
― Lynn Cullen, Mrs. Poe