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

—Edgar Allan Poe

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About Edgar Allan Poe

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Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales involving mystery and the macabre. He is widely regarded as one of the central figures of Romanticism and...

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I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active—not more happy—nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

—Edgar Allan Poe

Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.

—Edgar Allan Poe

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it—this is knowledge.

—Edgar Allan Poe

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

—Edgar Allan Poe

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Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

—Pablo Picasso

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Here and there awareness is growing that man, far from being the overlord of all creation, is himself part of nature, subject to the same cosmic forces that control all other life. Man's future welfare and probably even his survival depend upon his learning to live in harmony, rather than in combat, with these forces.

—Rachel Carson

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You begin with the possibilities of the material.

—Robert Rauschenberg

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Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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