Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poewas an American writer, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. He is widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in the United States and American literature as a whole, and he was one of the country's earliest practitioners of the short story. Poe is generally considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre and is further credited with contributing to the...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth19 January 1809
CityBoston, MA
CountryUnited States of America
To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.
Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.
There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction.
If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
As the strong man exults in his physical ability, delighting in such exercises as call his muscles into action, so glories the analyst in that moral activity which disentangles.
The goodness of the true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability.
Beauty is the sole legitimate province of the poem.
The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.
Once upon a midnight dreary
In me didst thou exist-and, in my death, see by this image, which is thine own, how utterly thou hast murdered thyself.
We loved with a love that was more than love.