Poe Quotes:

“The Cask of Amontillado” by E.A. Poe
-1- It must be understood, that neither by word nor deed had I given Fortunato cause to doubt my good will. I continued, as was my wont, to smile in his face, and he did not perceive that my smile _now_ was at the thought of his immolation.

This must be the most perfectly rendered description of a murderous smile in all of literature.

“MS. Found in a Bottle” by E.A.Poe
-1- Of my country and of my family I have little to say. Ill usage and length of years have driven me from the one, and estranged me from the other.
-2- I feel as I have never felt before, although I have been all my life a dealer in antiquities, and have imbibed the shadows of fallen columns at Balbec, and Tadmore and Persepolis, until my very soul has become a ruin.
-3- …about a league on either side of us, may be seen, indistinctly and at intervals, stupendous ramparts of ice, towering away into the desolate sky and looking like the walls of the universe.