Edgar Allan Poe — "I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat."
I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
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"I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human integrity has been ruined by the fall, and that I am a member of the ruined species."
"I am a firm believer in the doctrine of original sin."
"If you determine to abandon me — here take I my farewell — Neglected — I will be doubly ambitious, & the world shall hear of the son whom you have thought unworthy of your notice."
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"Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see."
About Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
American Gothic poet and short-story writer who invented the detective story (Murders in the Rue Morgue) and shaped horror literature. Closely associated with Nathaniel Hawthorne (fellow American Gothic) and Charles Baudelaire (his French translator and torch-bearer). For an intellectual contrast, see Ralph Waldo Emerson, Transcendentalist optimist of self-reliance — Poe wrote essays attacking the entire Transcendentalist circle as didactic and intellectually thin — he derisively called them 'Frogpondians' and treated their cheerful mysticism as the literary opposite of his macabre realism.