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Edgar Allan Poe

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We had always dwelled together, beneath a tropical sun, in the Valley of the Many Colored Grass.


— Edgar Allan Poe


#love

Lord help my poor soul.


— Edgar Allan Poe


#forgiveness #lord #mercy #soul #death

Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe, and forget this lost Lenore!


— Edgar Allan Poe


#heartbreak #memory #nepenthe #death

Nemo impune me lacessit!!


— Edgar Allan Poe


#kindlehighlight

There was much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which might have excited disgust.


— Edgar Allan Poe


#beauty

The pioneers and missionaries of religion have been the real cause of more trouble and war than all other classes of mankind.


— Edgar Allan Poe


#inspirational

You will observe that the stories told are all about money-seekers, not about money-finders.


— Edgar Allan Poe


#money #money

That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.


— Edgar Allan Poe


#contemplation #derived #elevating #i #intense

And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.


— Edgar Allan Poe


#death

A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong.


— Edgar Allan Poe


#poe #short-stories #the-cask-of-amontillado #equality






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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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