It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom.
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"A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on."
"The want of an object for my love is the sole reason why I am not a maniac."
"I am a Virginian, and have a natural right to be a gentleman."
"Why does a lady in tight corsets never need comfort? Because she's already so laced. — solaced."
"And so being young and dipt in folly / I fell in love with melancholy."
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.
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