Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
It would be mockery to call such dreariness heaven at all.
She was educated in Japan and was one of the earliest Chinese Nationalists, male or female. She was one of the charter members and one of the very few women who joined the Sun Yat Sen revolutionary party in 1904. She organized a military unit of 1000 under the cover of the school she was running. When Imperial troops discovered weapons at the school, she was arrested and tortured to find the names of the 1000 and their contacts who supplied them. This quotation is the only “confession” that she would give each time the torture was interrupted to give her an opportunity to confess and implicate the others. This was all she ever said despite the excruciating pain. Finally, when the Mandarin authorities could get nothing out of her and realized that she was becoming a hero by not talking, they beheaded her. Her words have come to symbolize great loyalty at personal sacrifice for a great cause.
Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. He is widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in the United States and of American literature as a whole, and he was one of the country's earliest practitioners of the short story. He is also generally considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre and is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction. Poe was the first well-known American writer to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career.
