Edgar Allan Poe Quotes About Poetry
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We loved with a love that was more than love.
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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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Melancholy is ... the most legitimate of all the poetical tones.
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It is clear that a poem may be improperly brief. Undue brevity degenerates into mere epigrammatism. A very short poem, while now and then producing a brilliant or vivid, never produces a profound or enduring, effect. There must be the steady pressing down of the stamp upon the wax.
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All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
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Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
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He must be theory-mad beyond redemption who ... shall ... persist in attempting to reconcile the obstinate oils and waters of Poetry and Truth.
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The word "Verse" is used here as the term most convenient for expressing, and without pedantry, all that is involved in the consideration of rhythm, rhyme, meter, and versification... the subject is exceedingly simple; one tenth of it, possibly may be called ethical; nine tenths, however, appertains to the mathematics.
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