Edgar Allan Poe Quotes:
Ocupation: Author
Life: January 19, 1809 - October 7, 1849
Birthday: January 19
Death: October 7
There are few persons who have not, at some period of their lives, amused themselves in retracing the steps by which particular conclusions of their own minds have been attained. The occupation is often full of interest and he who attempts it for the first time is astonished by the apparently illimitable distance and incoherence between the starting-point and the goal.
source: Edgar Allan Poe, Stuart Levine, Susan Levine (1976). “The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe: An Annotated Edition”, p.181, University of Illinois Press
topic: Distance, Goal, Mind, Incoherence
