Quote #103

Poe...was perhaps the first great nonstop literary drinker of the American nineteenth century. He made the indulgences of Coleridge and De Quincy seem like a bit of mischief in the kitchen with the cooking sherry.

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  1. Poe is a kind of Hawthorne and delirium tremens.
  2. There comes Poe, with his Raven, like Barnaby Rudge, Three-fifths of him genius, and two-fifths sheer fudge.
  3. He was an adventurer into the vaults and cellars and horrible underground passages of the human soul. He sounded the horror and the warning…
  4. I don't believe in ghosts but they have been chasing me my whole life.
  5. I have become insane with random intervals of horrible sanity.
  6. Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
  7. The pioneers and missionaries of religion have been the real cause of more trouble and war than all other classes of mankind.
  8. The idea of God, infinity, or spirit stands for the possible attempt at an impossible conception.

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