Kitty

“Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.”
― Edgar Allen Poe

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

“A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“Dear, gentle, patient, noble Nell . . . .”
― Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop