“ A man of genius usually gains a footing with the success of some one effort, and this is not always his greatest. ”
Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven (1845). copy citation
| Author | Edgar Allan Poe |
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| Source | The Raven |
| Topic | success genius |
| Date | 1845 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/17192/17192-h/17192-h.htm |
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“The Raven is wholly occupied with the author's typical theme—the irretrievable loss of an idolized and beautiful woman; but on other grounds, also, the public instinct is correct in thinking it his representative poem.
A man of genius usually gains a footing with the success of some one effort, and this is not always his greatest. Recognition is the more instant for having been postponed. He does not acquire it, like a miser's fortune, coin after coin, but "not at all or all in all." And thus with other ambitions: the courtier, soldier, actor,—whatever their parts,—each counts his triumph from some lucky stroke.”
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