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Edgar Allan Poe

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Comprehensive information about poet Edgar Allan Poe including poetry, biographical information, quotes, literary works, and more. ​Edgar Allan Poe is an American poet and short story writer best known for his tales of the macabre. Poe was an author, poet, editor, and literary critic most famously known for his poem "The Raven". This educational Edgar Allan Poe resource has information about the author's life, works, quotations, articles and essays, and more.


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Quote Left For my own part, I have never had a though which I could not set down in words with even more distinctness than that which I conceived it. Quote Right
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Quote Left If the propositions of this Discourse are tenable, the 'state of progressive collapse' is precisely that state in which alone we are warranted... Quote Right
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Quote Left Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow-- You are not wrong who deem That my days have been a dream; Yet if hope has flown away In a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less gone? All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream. Quote Right
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Quote Left Deep into the darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before Quote Right
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Quote Left To be thoroughly conversant with a man's heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of despair. Quote Right
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