Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poewas an American writer, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. He is widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in the United States and American literature as a whole, and he was one of the country's earliest practitioners of the short story. Poe is generally considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre and is further credited with contributing to the...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth19 January 1809
CityBoston, MA
CountryUnited States of America
A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
I remained to much inside my head and ended up losing my mind
Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.
All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
Truth is not always in a well. In fact, as regards the more important knowledge, I do believe that she is invariably superficial. The depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found.
A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
Leave my loneliness unbroken
Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore...
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.
There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is glorious– whether all that is profound– does not spring from disease of thought– from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect.
There is no beauty without some strangeness