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Edgar Allan Poe

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I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.


— Edgar Allan Poe


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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.


— Edgar Allan Poe


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Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.


— Edgar Allan Poe


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The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.


— Edgar Allan Poe


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It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.


— Edgar Allan Poe


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There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.


— Edgar Allan Poe


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The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.


— Edgar Allan Poe


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I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.


— Edgar Allan Poe


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There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.


— Edgar Allan Poe


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It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.


— Edgar Allan Poe


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Jefferson had enacted a system of student self-government allowing students to choose their own studies make their own arrangements for boarding and report all wrongdoing to the faculty. Though it made Poe a household name almost instantly he was paid only $9 for its publication. Legacy


Literary influence
During his lifetime Poe was mostly recognized as a literary critic.

He began planning to produce his own journal The Penn (later renamed The Stylus) though he died before it could be produced. Poe was taken in by John and Frances Allan of Richmond Virginia but they never formally adopted him. In January 1845 Poe publiEdgar Allan Poed his poem "The Raven" to instant success.

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