#poe

Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

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Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

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When I was a teenager, I read a lot of Poe. ↗

— Dario Argento

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Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars. ↗

— Aristotle

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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. ↗

— Aristotle

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I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length. ↗

— John Ashbery

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I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places. ↗

— John Ashbery

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Poe was a student of many things, and among those things he read and referred to in his work was the Bible. ↗

— John Astin

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A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. ↗

— W. H. Auden

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Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it. ↗

— Russell Baker

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