Born in Boston in 1809 to actor parents, his mother died only a few years later of tuberculosis, according to the National Park Service (NPS). Since his father had already left them (including Poe’s two other siblings), the kids all went to different families, with Poe ending up with John Allan and his wife, Frances. They were wealthy, which led Poe to travel to England and Scotland as a kid and attend boarding schools.
Poe’s work is part of the Romanticism and Gothic fiction literary movements, leaning heavily into the occult and the satanic, as Britannica wrote. And as the Poetry Foundation reported, his works have a “psychological intensity" that his work is now known for.
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Quote of the Day by Edgar Allan Poe
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This quote is a line early on in Poe’s short story, “Eleonora.” It was first published in the literary annual, The Gift, in 1842 in Philadelphia. As the Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore reported, annuals were “popular gifts” in the mid-19th century that often went out at the end of the year. Poetry, fiction and other prose were often printed in these gift books, which had a gorgeous presentation (they were presents after all).
As the Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore stated, it’s a “story of happiness lost and regained, and a favorite of Romantic readers.” According to them, Poe wasn’t really happy with how this one turned out, and wrote once that it’s a tale “which is not ended so well as it might be,” though he never did change the main points of the story in his revisions.
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So in that context, when he says this quote, he is comparing himself to those who call him crazy and don’t daydream. He calls their visions “gray,” and says they can only “obtain glimpses of eternity” when they’re sleeping. But then that “great secret” (that daydreamers possess) slips away from their grasp as soon as they wake up. Since they can only embark on the “adventure” of finding wisdom and meaning in their sleep, they are “rudderless and compassless,” as they explore the “sea of darkness,” which Poe writes in Latin.
They might be seen as offbeat or called crazy or “mad” by those around them. However, Poe writes that people “who dream by day” know just a bit more than those who don’t.
More Quotes from Edgar Allan Poe
“With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.”“I have great faith in fools — self-confidence my friends will call it.”“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”“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.”“To him, who still would gaze upon the glory of the summer sun, there comes, when that sun will from him part, a sullen hopelessness of heart.”“Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.”Up Next:
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