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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

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Edgar Allan Poe. (1809–1849) (continued)
 
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      The object, Truth, or the satisfaction of the intellect, and the object, Passion, or the excitement of the heart, are, although attainable, to a certain extent, in poetry, far more readily attainable in prose.
          The Philosophy of Composition.
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      I would define, in brief, the Poetry of words as the Rhythmical Creation of Beauty. Its sole arbiter is Taste.
          The poetic Principle.
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    Can it be fancied that Deity ever vindictively
Made in his image a mannikin merely to madden it? 1 
          The Rationale of Verse.
 
Elizabeth Barrett Browning. (1806–1861)
 
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    There Shakespeare, on whose forehead climb
The crowns o’ the world; oh, eyes sublime
With tears and laughter for all time!
          A Vision of Poets.
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    And Chaucer, with his infantine
Familiar clasp of things divine.
          A Vision of Poets.
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    And Marlowe, Webster, Fletcher, Ben,
Whose fire-hearts sowed our furrows when
The world was worthy of such men.
          A Vision of Poets.
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    Knowledge by suffering entereth,
And life is perfected by death.
          A Vision of Poets. Conclusion.
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    Oh, the little birds sang east, and the little birds sang west.
          Toll slowly.
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    And I smiled to think God’s greatness flowed around our incompleteness,
  Round our restlessness His rest.
          Rhyme of the Duchess.
 
Note 1.
FitzGerald: Omar Khayyám.
What! out of senseless Nothing to provoke
A conscious Something to resent the yoke. [back]