The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated, Inline Footnotes)

by Edgar Allan Poe

“Every genuine author in a greater or less degree leaves in his works, whatever their design, traces of his personal character: elements of his immortal being, in which the individual survives the person.

He had, to a morbid excess, that desire to rise which is vulgarly called ambition, but no wish for the esteem of the love of his species; only the hard wish to succeed — not shine, not serve — succeed, that he might have the right to despise a world which galled his self conceit.

belief in another’s kindness,

I read these words about Mary Wiseman not 24 hrs ago