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Edgar Allan Poe1809–1849

The death then of a beautiful woman is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world, and equally is it beyond doubt that the lips best suited for such topic are those of a bereaved lover.

Edgar Allan Poe on poetry

The Philosophy of Composition (1846), p.122 Line 17

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