#poe

Are you really going to see Lewis? One of the few people it's worth getting excited over, I think. I know he is a good poet. I daresay he never heard of me, but I wish you would tell him that his work is the joy of my life. ↗

— Ruth Pitter

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The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

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Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history. ↗

— Plato

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Most of my life I have played a lot of famous people but most of them were dead so you have a poetic license. ↗

— Christopher Plummer

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Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks. ↗

— Plutarch

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The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

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Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

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The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

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

— Edgar Allan Poe

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

— Edgar Allan Poe

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