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Edgar Allan Poe Quotes

You call it hope – that fire of fire! It is but agony of desire.

Source:Tamerlane (Tamerlane and Other Poems, July 1827), The works of Edgar Allan Poe (1903), Volume 5, Page 328
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  • Name: Edgar Allan Poe
  • Profession: Writer
  • Born: January 19, 1809 - October 7, 1849
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