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“If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize at one effort the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human sentiment, the opportunity is his own — the road to immortal renown lies straight, open, and unencumbered before him. All that he has to do is to write and publish a very little book. Its title should be simple — a few plain words — "My Heart Laid Bare."”

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But — this little book must be true to its title. <br class="br"> Marginalia http://www.easylit.com/poe/comtext/prose/margin.shtml (November 1844)

“For the most wild, yet most homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief. Mad indeed would I be to expect it, in a case where my very senses reject their own evidence. Yet, mad am I not — and very surely do I not dream. But to-morrow I die, and to-day I would unburthen my soul.”

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Edgar Allan Poe buch The Black Cat

The Black Cat (1843)

“Over the Mountains
Of the Moon,
Down the Valley of the Shadow,
Ride, boldly ride,"
The shade replied, —
"If you seek for Eldorado!”

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Edgar Allan Poe Eldorado

"Eldorado", st. 4.

“Can it be fancied that Deity ever vindictively
Made in his image a mannikin merely to madden it?”

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"The Rationale of Verse", III (1848); this is comparable to: ""What! out of senseless Nothing to provoke / A conscious Something to resent the yoke", FitzGerald, Omar Khayyám.

“But our love it was stronger by far than the love
Of those who were older than we —
Of many far wiser than we —
And neither the angels in Heaven above
Nor the demons down under the sea
Can ever dissever my soul from the soul
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee”

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Edgar Allan Poe Annabel Lee

St. 5.
Annabel Lee (1849)

“Had the routine of our life at this place been known to the world, we should have been regarded as madmen —; although, perhaps, as madmen of a harmless nature.”

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Edgar Allan Poe buch The Murders in the Rue Morgue

"The Murders in the Rue Morgue" (1841).

“The happiest day — the happiest hour
My sear'd and blighted heart hath known,
The highest hope of pride and power,
I feel hath flown.”

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&quot; The Happiest Day http://www.internal.org/view_poem.phtml?poemID=190&quot;, st. 1 (1827).

“Beneath the pressure of torments such as these, the feeble remnant of the good within me succumbed. Evil thoughts became my sole intimates — the darkest and most evil of thoughts. The moodiness of my usual temper increased to hatred of all things and of all mankind; while, from the sudden, frequent, and ungovernable outbursts of a fury to which I now blindly abandoned myself, my uncomplaining wife, alas! was the most usual and the most patient of sufferers.”

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Edgar Allan Poe buch The Black Cat

The Black Cat (1843)

“It is with literature as with law or empire — an established name is an estate in tenure, or a throne in possession.”

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&quot; Letter to Mr. B — http://www.lfchosting.com/eapoe/works/essays/blettera.htm&quot;, preface to Poems (1831).

“O God! Can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?”

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"A Dream Within A Dream" (1849).

“"Doubtless," said I, "what it utters is its only stock and store,
Caught from some unhappy master whom unmerciful Disaster
Followed fast and followed faster till his songs one burden bore.”

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Edgar Allan Poe The Raven

Stanza 11.
The Raven (1844)

“There is no oath which seems to me so sacred as that sworn by the all-divine love I bear you. — By this love, then, and by the God who reigns in Heaven, I swear to you that my soul is incapable of dishonor — that, with the exception of occasional follies and excesses which I bitterly lament, but to which I have been driven by intolerable sorrow, and which are hourly committed by others without attracting any notice whatever — I can call to mind no act of my life which would bring a blush to my cheek — or to yours. If I have erred at all, in this regard, it has been on the side of what the world would call a Quixotic sense of the honorable — of the chivalrous.”

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&quot; Letter to Mrs. Whitman http://www.lfchosting.com/eapoe/WORKS/letters/p4810181.htm&quot; (1848-10-18).

“And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.”

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Edgar Allan Poe buch The Masque of the Red Death

"The Masque of the Red Death" (1842).

“The object, Truth, or the satisfaction of the intellect, and the object, Passion, or the excitement of the heart, are, although attainable, to a certain extent, in poetry, far more readily attainable in prose.”

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Edgar Allan Poe buch Die Methode der Komposition

The Philosophy of Composition (published 1846).

“A poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul.”

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The Poetic Principle (1850)

“You have conquered, and I yield. Yet, henceforward art thou also dead—dead to the World, to Heaven and to Hope! In me didst thou exist—and, in my death, see by this image, which is thine own, how utterly thou hast murdered thyself.”

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Edgar Allan Poe buch William Wilson

William Wilson (1839)

“Thus it appeared, I say, but was not. It was my antagonist—it was Wilson, who then stood before me in the agonies of his dissolution. His mask and cloak lay, where he had thrown them, upon the floor. Not a thread in all his raiment—not a line in all the marked and singular lineaments of his face which was not, even in the most absolute identity, mine own!”

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Edgar Allan Poe buch William Wilson

William Wilson (1839)

“A large mirror,—so at first it seemed to me in my confusion—now stood where none had been perceptible before; and, as I stepped up to it in extremity of terror, mine own image, but with features all pale and dabbled in blood, advanced to meet me with a feeble and tottering gait.”

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Edgar Allan Poe buch William Wilson

William Wilson (1839)