Edgar Allan Poe — "If a poem hasn't ripped apart your soul, you haven't experienced poetry."
If a poem hasn't ripped apart your soul, you haven't experienced poetry.
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"I have no faith in any system of philosophy that does not begin with God."
"The true genius is a man who can say what he likes without being understood."
"The author avers upon his word of honor that in commencing this work he loads a pistol, and places it upon the table."
"The Tale originated in a bet that I could produce nothing effective on a subject so singular, provided I treated it seriously."
"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."
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.