Literary and Philosophical Quotes -- Poets and Dreamers -- Edgar Allan Poe
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Edgar Allan Poe: an American poet, short-story writer, and critic, b. Boston. He is acknowledged today as one of the most brilliant and original writers in American literature. His skillfully wrought tales and poems convey with passionate intensity the mysterious, dreamlike, and often macabre forces that pervaded his sensibility. He is also considered the father of the modern detective story.
The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all these more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind.
A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this- that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made- not to understand- but to feel- as crime.
If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human sentiment, the opportunity is his own- the road to immortal renown lies straight, open, and unencumbered before him. All that he has to do is to write and publish a very little book. Its title should be simple- a few plain words- My Heart Laid Bare. But- this little book must be true to its title.
That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.
To be thoroughly conversant with a Man's heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of despair.
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