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Edgar Allan Poe

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Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.


— Edgar Allan Poe


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I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.


— Edgar Allan Poe


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Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.


— Edgar Allan Poe


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The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.


— Edgar Allan Poe


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They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.


— Edgar Allan Poe


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Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.


— Edgar Allan Poe


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Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.


— Edgar Allan Poe


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The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.


— Edgar Allan Poe


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I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.


— Edgar Allan Poe


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The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?


— 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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