Do you think Edgar Allen Poe was mentally unstable?(not to say I don't admire his poetry)But he seems to be, off.What do you think?
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He was off his nut often. He had moments of blinding insight, and others of opiate induced numb-skullery. I love a lot of his works, but reading his history is a little more disturbing than some of his horror!
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I think that he would not be alone. It seems like there are many 'tortured' artists, and it is their very sensitivity to life that gives them the insight to make art for others to enjoy. That's my idea on the subject anyway! :)
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No, he drank too much and had an over-active imagination...
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What do you think?! I'm suprised he lasted as long as he did. He went through so much death and mental pain in his life. With all those people he loved...dying... Who would be completely sane after that? The answer...nobody...
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Probably, but if he hadn't been would his writing be as fantastic? Coleridge wrote The Rime of the Ancient Mariner when he was high off his gourd. Van Gogh was clearly troubled. My point is that some people just feel harder or think along eldritch lines, and while that is unfortunate much of the time for the person involved, it makes for a very clear sort of beauty and rawness in their work.
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AACCKKK! %*%##%@# bird!! Ahem! .. yes? Ahh..just what are you implying sir?
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yes, so was Kurt Cobain, Albert Einstein, Van Gogh, etc. Genius is usually not the norm in a mental sense, most radical thinking ppl are a little crazy.
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“Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is glorious– whether all that is profound– does not spring from disease of thought– from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect.” - Edgar Alan Poe
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He certainly had a disturbed mind
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