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Edgar Allan Poe

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The ninety and nine are with dreams, content, but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.


— Edgar Allan Poe


#dreams #dreams

Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.


— Edgar Allan Poe


#satire #humor

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.


— Edgar Allan Poe


#life #philosophy #relevance #truth #experience

Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.


— Edgar Allan Poe


#intelligence #madness #intelligence

Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made.


— Edgar Allan Poe


#death

The idea of God, infinity, or spirit stands for the possible attempt at an impossible conception.


— Edgar Allan Poe


#religion #religion

In criticism, I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.


— Edgar Allan Poe


#critics #criticism

For the moon never beams, without giving me dreams, of the beautiful Annabel Lee, And the stars never rise, but I feel the bright eyes, of the beautiful Annabel Lee


— Edgar Allan Poe


#poetry #beauty

A man's grammar, like Caesar's wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.


— Edgar Allan Poe


#writing-advice #grammar

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.


— Edgar Allan Poe


#brief #creation #define #i #poetry






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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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