“I would define, in brief, the Poetry of words as the Rhythmical Creation of Beauty. Its sole arbiter is taste. With the intellect or with the conscience, it has only collateral relations. Unless incidentally, it has no concern whatever either with duty or with truth.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

The Poetic Principle (1850)

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American author, poet, editor and literary critic 1809–1849

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