The depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found.
Edgar Allan PoeNot hear it? --yes, I hear it, and have heard it. Long --long --long --many minutes, many hours, many days, have I heard it --yet I dared not --oh, pity me, miserable wretch that I am! --I dared not --I dared not speak! We have put her living in the tomb!
Edgar Allan PoeThe result of law inviolate is perfectionโrightโnegative happiness. The result of law violate is imperfection, wrong, positive pain.
Edgar Allan PoeI might refer at once, if necessary, to a hundred well authenticated instances. One of very remarkable character, and of which the circumstances may be fresh in the memory of some of my readers, occurred, not very long ago, in the neighboring city of Baltimore, where it occasioned a painful, intense, and widely extended excitement.
Edgar Allan Poe