Creative Quotations from . . .
Edgar Allan Poe
(1809-1849) born on Jan 19
US "poet, short-story writer". "He is famous for his mysterious, macabre stories and poems, e.g., "The Gold Bug," 1843 and "The Raven," 1845."
 
   
F
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door."

R
"Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before."
A
They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. In their grey visions they obtain glimpses of eternity . . .
N
"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."
K
"There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few."


Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: 'The Raven'
R: ""The Raven.""
A: "In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software, 1994."
N: "Letter, 2 July 1844, to poet and critic James Russell Lowell. Quoted in: Julian Symons, The Tell-Tale Heart: The Life and Works of Edgar Allan Poe, pt. 1, ch. 11 (1978)."
K: "Marginalia, in "Southern Literary Messenger" (Richmond), Apr 1849."



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