Edgar Allan Poe — "It is not a matter of whether or not you will die, but of how you will live."
It is not a matter of whether or not you will die, but of how you will live.
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"The unpardonable sin is to be a bore."
"The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?"
"And then there stole into my fancy, like a rich musical note, the thought of what sweet rest there must be in the grave."
"From childhood's hour I have not been As others were—I have not seen As others saw—I could not bring My passions from a common spring."
"That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses."
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.