Poe's Awesome!

Sep 05, 2004 15:25

"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."

...the man was a genius. Poetic, dark...
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