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Edgar Allan Poe

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Edgar Allan Poe
Age: 40 †
Born: 1809
Born: January 19
Died: 1849
Died: October 7
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You are not wrong who deem That my days have been a dream Yet if hope has flown away In a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less gone? All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream.
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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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A poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul.
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Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!” Quoth the raven, “Nevermore.
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Whether people grow fat by joking, or whether there is something in fat itself which predisposes to a joke, I have never been quite able to determine.
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Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'
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In reading some books we occupy ourselves chiefly with the thoughts of the author in perusing others, exclusively with our own.
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Out- out are the lights- out all! And, over each quivering form, The curtain, a funeral pall, Comes down with the rush of a storm, While the angels, all pallid and wan, Uprising, unveiling, affirm That the play is the tragedy, Man, And its hero the Conqueror Worm.
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...for her whom in life thou dids't abhor, in death thou shalt adore
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And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting...
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The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it often occurs that an axiom appears a paradox, or that a sarcasm is converted into a sermonoid.
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In [chess], where the pieces have different and bizarre motions, with various and variable values, what is only complex, is mistaken (a not unusual error) for what is profound
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Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made.
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If I could dwell where Israfel hath dwelt and he where I he might not sing so wildly well a mortal melody while a bolder note then this might swell from my lyre in the sky.
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A poem in my opinion, is opposed to a work of science by having for its immediate object, pleasure, not truth.
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The reproduction of what the senses perceive in nature through the veil of the soul.
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There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction.
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Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best have gone to their eternal rest.
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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And all my days are trances, And all my nightly dreams Are where thy dark eye glances, And where thy footstep gleams-- In what ethereal dances, By what eternal streams!
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