“We should not allow ourselves to believe that writers like Poe have more imagination than those who are content with describing things as they really are. It is surely easier to invent striking situations in this way than to tread the beaten track which intelligent minds have followed throughout the centuries.”

—  Eugène Delacroix

6 April 1856 (p. 312)
1831 - 1863, Delacroix' 'Journal' (1847 – 1863)

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