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Edgar Allan Poe

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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.


— Edgar Allan Poe


#horrible #i #insane #intervals #long

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.


— Edgar Allan Poe


#see #seem #within

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


— Edgar Allan Poe


#dreaming #dreams #night #dreams

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


— Edgar Allan Poe


#fool #humor #self-confidence #self-irony #faith

We loved with a love that was more than love.


— Edgar Allan Poe


#loved #more #than

I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.


— Edgar Allan Poe


#inspirational

There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.


— Edgar Allan Poe


#imperfections #beauty

From childhood's hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone.


— Edgar Allan Poe


#loss #love #love

Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.


— Edgar Allan Poe


#horror #nothing

Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.


— Edgar Allan Poe


#contrast #suffering






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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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