Mrs. Poe
Lynn Cullen
Top 10 Best 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.”
“The principled man is merely one whose ancestors were ruthlessly unprincipled, affording him the option of acting upon fine sentiments.”
“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.”
“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.”
“You and I are poets, Mrs. Osgood. Our job is to raise questions, not to answer them.”
“People want to be titillated or frightened. They don't want to think.”
“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.”
“Fortunate is the person who can succeed in extracting honey from such a flower as this life, whose root and every petal is bitterness.”
“Whenever you see this much wealth, assume that someone dirtied his hands. Fortunes don’t come to saints.”
“Whenever you see this much wealth, assume that someone dirtied his hands. Fortunes don't come to saints.”
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