I am a man of the world, and have seen much of its evil. I have also seen something of its good. But I have never seen anything so good as a good wife.
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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 would define, in brief, the Poetry of words as The Rhythmical Creation of Beauty. Its sole arbiter is Taste. With the Intellect or with the Conscience, it has only collateral relations. Unless, inde…"
"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity."
"As a literary man, I shall be a failure."
"The value of a conundrum is in exact proportion to the extent of its demerit, and that it is only positively good when it is outrageously and scandalously absurd."
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.
This is a partial fabrication/embellishment. The first part is authentic, the latter part about a 'good wife' is not directly attributable in this phrasing.
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