Edgar Allan Poe
  • Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.

  • All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

  • With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

  • I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.

  • Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.