Dang, what's up with all these books?

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I found my tattoo at the MFA in Boston, MA after a year after getting it. It’s from a series of prints done by Edouard Manet to accompany a French edition of The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe in 1875. Included in the collection was the “ex libris” bookplate that my tattoo was based on (I didn’t even know it was on display there!); super nerdy and exciting moment, to be sure!

Zombie Poe

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“For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams and the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes.”

-Edgar Allan Poe

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The Raven

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Edgar Allan Poe

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I love when I discover that celebrities have great literary tattoos. Evan Rachel Wood has a Poe quote tattooed on her neck:

‘All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream’

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fuckyeahtattoos:

My Tell Tale Heart tattoo dedicated to Edgar Allan Poe. His poems and stories basically saved my life when I was suicidal in high school. I owe him so much. Done at Into The Sun in Pheonixville, PA

Edgar Allan Poe

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fuckyeahtattoos:

odins ravens ; huginn and muninn

(written in nordic viking runic , meaning thought and memory) With my favorite poet (edgar allan poe) lines around it (passage from the raven to collaborate) it says ;

 `Other friends have flown before -

‘On the morrow he will leave me, as my hopes have flown before.’
Then the bird said, `Nevermore.’

i dont explain much of what i do or meaningful things often, but here it is.
Every single aspect and detail of this piece has meaning to me. The two birds, as mentioned are Huginn and Muninn - who are Odins ravens. (old nordic viking mytholgy) as story goes that Odin had one eye, for these two birds flew around the world and would inform him of what was happening everywhere

- one with the name of memory and one with the name of thought. In  old viking runic  found in scandinavia there has been poetry of Odin  having the battle of what is more important / what he values more - thought or memory. - One being more passive than the other - (memory being more passive )

( I was also , raised with these stories -OBVIOUSLY not believing them but kind of as a fairy tale sort of a thing. I know all the stories of Valhalla , being half danish and owning all of the Valhalla comics and being obsessed as a child)

the edgar allan poe quote is almost self explanatory , as i have moved three very big times in my life and have traveled to far far places since a very young child, and know people in many parts of the world. no where is really home.Travel and moving from place to place is how i will live for the rest of my life.

Any way, that is the jest of it.

done by carli d. (chicago area)