Edgar Allan

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“Science! true daughter of old Time thou art!
Who alterest all things with thy peering eyes.
Why preyest thou thus upon the poet’s heart,
Vulture, whose wings are dull realities?
How should he love thee—or how deem thee wise
Who woulds’t not leave him in his wandering,”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)

“Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1845)