And All I Lov'd — Edgar Allan Poe Quote Mug

Edgar Allan Poe, "Alone" (written c. 1829, published 1875) "And all I lov'd—I lov'd alone—" Poe wrote this at 20 and kept it to himself for the rest of his life. It's the most nakedly personal thing he ever wrote — a description of a way of experiencing the world that couldn't be shared because it was, at its core, solitary. This is the mug for the morning when you feel that way: not sad, not lonely, just aware that some things arrive in you on their own terms. The three lines staircase down both sides of the mug — stepping toward "alone—" like a thought arriving at its conclusion. Lefties see it. Righties see it. The aloneness doesn't pick sides. Your Morning Alone The staircase layout carries the line toward "alone—" the same way the thought does — one step at a time 15 oz black ceramic — two-sided print Dishwasher safe; microwave safe Who It's For The person who needs ten minutes alone before the day starts. The Poe reader who has carried this line for years. The one who knows the specific quality of loving something alone. Take the morning. Take it on your own terms. The Design Three lines in a staircase — "And all I lov'd—" / "I lov'd" / "alone—" — each stepping further right, "alone—" arriving at the furthest indent, exactly where it belongs. The word "lov'd" is not a typo — period-standard poetic contraction, the em dashes are his own Both sides carry it the same way: toward the word at the end. Also on the The Alone Tee and The Alone Journal. Edgar Allan Poe, in Plain English Lived: 1809–1849 Invented the detective fiction genre with "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" (1841) — decades before Sherlock Holmes More celebrated in France than in America during his own lifetime — Baudelaire translated him, Dostoevsky and Borges claimed him The Raven (1845) made him famous and earned him almost nothing "Alone" was kept in someone else's album for 26 years before the world saw it — the most intimate thing he ever wrote, hidden the longest