At an age when most children are playing hopscotch or with their dolls, you, poor child, who had no friends or toys, you toyed with dreams of murder, because that is a game to play alone.

JeanPaul Sartre
At an age when most children are playing hopscotch or...
At an age when most children are playing hopscotch or...
At an age when most children are playing hopscotch or...
At an age when most children are playing hopscotch or...
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During his childhood, Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) had many obsessions and passions. One of these was a fascination with death. He loved to research and write about it and he spent a lot of time imagining the lives of famous people who had been killed. In an early poem, he writes that “The child is father of the man.” This is a quote from a poem by the ancient Greek philosopher Plato (428 BC-348 BC).

That means that little children can have big dreams and they can have big ideas. They have huge imaginations. And, when you have a huge imagination, you can dream about things that you wouldn’t normally think about.

This quote from Poe shows how being a kid has no limits. You can be creative in any situation and you can try out different ways of doing things. Edgar Allan Poe was known for being an amazing writer and he was also known for writing some pretty dark stories with disturbing images in them.

However, when you are a kid, you don’t worry about what other people will think when you do something different from others. You just do what makes you happy.

Source: No Exit And Three Other Plays

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