Edgar Allan Poe
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Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.
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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.