About Edgar Allan Poe:
Edgar Allan Poe is generally considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre. He is further credited with contributing to the emerging 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.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.
Edgar Allan PoeThe death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
Edgar Allan PoeTo vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.
Edgar Allan PoeAll religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
Edgar Allan PoeScience has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
Edgar Allan PoeMan's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
Edgar Allan PoeThat man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
Edgar Allan Poe