The other day I was a taking a tiptoe through the addictive tulips known as social media and I saw a meme like this:
I instantly knew this was not Poe. By looking through the comments I found a mix of people stating their love for Poe without realizing that he never said this and people who revealed the true author - a contemporary poet named Sade Andria Zabala.
How must this poet feel knowing that this quote is credited to an man long dead? And why do people keep sharing it? Comments state that it is incorrect and people know the true author yet the meme sits there, forever in the void known as the internet. WHY? JUST WHY?
Rant over.