With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion. - Edgar Alla

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion. – Edgar Allan Poe

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A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry. – Walter Pater

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