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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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Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.
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And all I loved, I loved alone.
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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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Every moment of the night Forever changing places And they put out the star-light With the breath from their pale faces
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The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
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It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain, but, once conceived, it haunted me day and night.
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And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor, Shall be lifted -- Nevermore!
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I have before suggested that a genuine blackguard is never without a pocket-handkerchief.
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Indeed, there is an eloquence in true enthusiasm that is not to be doubted.
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For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams Of the beautiful Annabel Lee And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes Of the beautiful Annabel Lee And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side Of my darling- my darling- my life and my bride, In the sepulchre there by the sea, In her tomb by the sounding sea.
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But in the expression of the countenance, which was beaming all over with smiles, there still lurked (incomprehensible anomalyl) that fitful strain of melancholy which will ever be found inseparable from the perfection of the beautiful.
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Sound loves to revel in a summer night.
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Sound-- That stealeth ever on the ear of him Who, musing, gazeth on the distance dim, And sees the darkness coming as a cloud-- Is not its form--its voice--most palpable and loud?
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Boston: Their hotels are bad. Their pumpkin pies are delicious. Their poetry is not so good.
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I never can hear a crowd of people singing and gesticulating, all together, at an Italian opera, without fancying myself at Athens, listening to that particular tragedy, by Sophocles, in which he introduces a full chorus of turkeys, who set about bewailing the death of Meleager.
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