Quote by: Edgar Allan Poe

Misery is manifold. The wretchedness of earth is multiform. Overreaching the wide horizon as the rainbow, its hues are as various as the hues of that arch, --as distinct too, yet as intimately blended. Overreaching the wide horizon as the rainbow! How is it that from beauty I have derived a type of unloveliness? --from the covenant of peace a simile of sorrow? But as, in ethics, evil is a consequence of good, so, in fact, out of joy is sorrow born. Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day, or the agonies which are have their origin in the ecstasies which might have been.


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Author Bio


  • NameEdgar Allan Poe
  • DescriptionAmerican author, poet, editor and literary critic
  • AliasesPoe
  • BornJanuary 19, 1809
  • DiedOctober 7, 1849
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPoet; Writer; Essayist; Literary Critic