Poe was one of the earliest American short story writers. His multitalented genius made him famous after his tragic death.
He was a critic, mystery and most importantly a poet.
Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe is considered the inventor of the detective-fiction genre. He is also credited
with contributing to a very popular genre of science fiction. He was the first well-known American writer to try to earn a living through
writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career.
He lived only 40 short years, yet his literary legacy can be easily compared with those of other authors who lived much longer.
(1809-1849)
There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
I never can hear a crowd of people singing and gesticulating, all together, at an Italian opera, without fancying myself at Athens, listening
to that particular tragedy, by Sophocles, in which he introduces a full chorus of turkeys, who set about bewailing the death of Meleager.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes
directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
We loved with a love that was more than love.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses
perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure;
in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
Each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
He is one of the all-time masters of horror and the macabre. His major inspiration and invention was cosmic horror,
the idea that life is incomprehensible to human minds and that the universe is fundamentally alien.
He wrote fantasy and horror in the best tradition of Poe, Blackwood, and Machen. His own style gained many admirers and was later imitated by others.
(1890 - 1937)
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
~ Carl Sagan
The difference between what the most and the least learned people
know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.
~ Albert Einstein
Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.
~ Edwin Hubble
