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Edgar Allan Poe

Read through the most famous quotes from Edgar Allan Poe




Sleep, those little slices of death — how I loathe them.


— Edgar Allan Poe


#sleep #death

If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.


— Edgar Allan Poe


#forget #make #note #remembered #spot

Sometimes I’m terrified of my heart; of its constant hunger for whatever it is it wants. The way it stops and starts.


— Edgar Allan Poe


#misattributed #misattributed-to-poe #poe-singer #heart

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.


— Edgar Allan Poe


#fear #fraud #friend #greed #imagination

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.


— Edgar Allan Poe


#existence #fancy #future #irrational #look

The best things in life make you sweaty.


— Edgar Allan Poe


#life #love #meaning-of-life #philosophical #puberty

Deep in earth my love is lying And I must weep alone.


— Edgar Allan Poe


#crying #sorrow #love

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.


— Edgar Allan Poe


#development #excites #invariably #kind #sensitive

I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.


— Edgar Allan Poe


#sorrow

Invisible things are the only realities.


— Edgar Allan Poe


#satire #humor






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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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