Edgar Allan Poe‘s timeline
Edgar Allan Poe was born on 1/19/1809
Spirits of the Dead
Edgar Allan Poe with Berenice in 1835
Edgar Allan Poe married Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe in 1836
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The Conchologist’s First Book
Edgar Allan Poe with The Murders in the Rue Morgue in 1841
portrait by Samuel Stillman Osgood
“Ultima Thule” daguerreotype of Poe
Portrait from Graham’s Magazine
Edgar Allan Poe died Virgini Eliza Clemm Poe in 1847
Edgar Allan Poe with Ulalume in 1847
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?douard Manet with Edgar Allan Poe in 1848
Edgar Allan Poe with Eureka: A Prose Poem in 1849
Edgar Allan Poe died on 10/7/1849
the cause of his death is unknown and has been variously attributed to alcohol, brain congestion, cholera, drugs, heart disease, rabies, suicide, tuberculosis
Edgar Allan Poe died on 10/7/1849
“A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this — that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made — not to understand — but to feel — as crime.”
“Deep into that darkness peering long I stood there wondering fearing doubting dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.”
“Mans real life is happy chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.”
“All religion my friend is simply evolved out of fraud fear greed imagination and poetry.”
“I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active — not more happy — nor more wise than he was 6000 years ago.”
“Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.”
“We loved with a love that was more than love.”
“The death of a beautiful woman is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.”
“Experience has shown and a true philosophy will always show that a vast perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.”
“I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.”
“It is the nature of truth in general as of some ores in particular to be richest when most superficial.”
“The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this at any time it can be quietly led.”
“It is by no means an irrational fancy that in a future existence we shall look upon what we think our present existence as a dream.”
“Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.”
“The ninety and nine are with dreams content but the hope of the world made new is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.”
“Beauty of whatever kind in its supreme development invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.”
“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.”
“Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.”
“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.”
“With me poetry has not been a purpose but a passion.”
“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.”
“The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends and where the other begins?”
“I would define in brief the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.”
“I have great faith in fools self-confidence my friends call it.”
“To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.”
