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Edgar Allan Poe

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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.


— Edgar Allan Poe


#me #passion #poetry #purpose

The true genius shudders at incompleteness — imperfection — and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.


— Edgar Allan Poe


#imperfection #incompleteness #shudder #silence #silence

The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.


— Edgar Allan Poe


#death #poetry #women #beauty

The past is a pebble in my shoe.


— Edgar Allan Poe


#misattributed #misattributed-to-poe #poe-singer #past

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.


— Edgar Allan Poe


#before #dared #darkness #deep #doubting

And all I loved, I loved alone.


— Edgar Allan Poe


#love

Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.


— Edgar Allan Poe


#beauty #creation #words

There is no beauty without some strangeness


— Edgar Allan Poe


#misattributed-to-poe #misquote #beauty

There are moments when even to the sober eye of reason, the world of our sad humanity may assume the semblance of Hell.


— Edgar Allan Poe


#hell #horror #sad

Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded...


— Edgar Allan Poe


#sanity #wise






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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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