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Edgar Allan Poe

(1809–1849) Short Story Writer United States

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Edgar Allan Poe was a short story writer from the United States, best known for The Murders in the Rue Morgue.

Quick Facts About Edgar Allan Poe

Born: January 19, 1809
Died: October 7, 1849
Nationality: United States
Profession: Short Story Writer
Notable works: The Murders in the Rue Morgue
Known for: The Raven, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Black Cat, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
Spouse: Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe

About Edgar Allan Poe

He is considered a key figure of Romanticism and Gothic fiction in the United States and of early American literature. Poe was one of the first successful short‑story writers and a pioneer of detective fiction. He was the first well‑known American author to earn a living only from writing, which made his life financially hard.

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And I fell violently on my face.

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Blood was its Avatar and its seal.

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Grammar is the analysis of language.

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Analysis

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There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm

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Eloquence

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Sound loves to revel in a summer night.

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Night

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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

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Misconception

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The people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them.

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Law

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I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.

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Funny

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To observe attentively is to remember distinctly.

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Inspirational

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No man who ever lived knows any more about the hereafter than you and I.

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Hereafter

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

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Heart

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I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.

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“O God! can I not save One from the pitiless wave?”

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“Ha! ha! ha! -- ha! ha! ha! -- ho! ho! ho!”

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“And haven't I told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the senses.”

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Madness

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Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

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Intelligence

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I have before suggested that a genuine blackguard is never without a pocket-handkerchief.

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

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“For a moment of intense terror she paused upon the giddy pinnacle, as if in contemplation of her own sublimity, then trembled…

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Heart

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I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.

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Cause and effect

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Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is…

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Ideas

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And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door, That I scarce was sure I heard you"— here I opened…

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Darkness

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“The esteemed Reverend Rufus Griswold is everything I aspire to be, though I fear I shall never soar so quite as high…

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I was cautious in what I said before the young lady; for I could not be sure that she was sane; and,…

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Cautious

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“Be silent in that solitude Which is not loneliness - for then The spirits of the dead who stood In…

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Death

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I am actuated by an ambition which I believe to be an honourable one the ambition of serving the great cause…

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Ambition

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By a route obscure and lonely Haunted by ill angels only, Where an eidolon, named NIGHT, On a black throne reigns upright,…

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Angel

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“Science has its place in man’s search for understanding, but science and the imagination have tended to bifurcate in the modern world;…

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Learning

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“Depend upon it, after all, Thomas, Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit…

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Books

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The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take its…

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Body

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There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told. Men die nightly in their beds, wringing the hands of…

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In the one instance, the dreamerloses sight of this object in a wilderness of deductions and suggestionsuntilhe finds the incitamentum, or first…

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“Now this is the point. You fancy me mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen…

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Every morning

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“From the dim regions beyond the mountains at the upper end of our encircled domain, there crept out a narrow and deep…

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O, Times! O, Manners! It is my opinion That you are changing sadly your dominion I mean the reign of manners hath…

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We now demand the light artillery of the intellect; we need the curt, the condensed, the pointed, the readily diffused - in…

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Artillery

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By late accounts from Rotterdam, that city seems to be in a high state of philosophical excitement. Indeed, phenomena have there occurred…

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“Our talk had been serious and sober, But our thoughts they were palsied and sere - For we knew not the month…

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Sober Thoughts

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“But tomorrow I die, and today I would unburden my soul.”

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Tomorrow

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All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.

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Attachment

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