I seemed to be upon the verge of comprehension, without the power to comprehend as men, at time, find themselves upon the brink of rememberance, without being able, in the end, to remember.
Edgar Allan PoeCoincidences, in general, are great stumbling blocks in the way of that class of thinkers who have been educated to know nothing of the theory of probabilities- that theory to which the most glorious objects of human research are indebted for the most glorious of illustration.
Edgar Allan PoePerched upon a bust of Pallas, just above my chamber door,- Perched, and sat, and nothing more.
Edgar Allan Poe