PJ

“And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor, Shall be lifted -- Nevermore!”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door,
That I scarce was sure I heard you"— here I opened wide the door; —
Darkness there, and nothing more.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Edgar Allan Poe: Complete & Unabridged

“There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.”
― Francis Bacon

“Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven and Other Poems