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A poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul.
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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Men have called me mad but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.
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