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the stories and people we're quoting."

~ John Green

Wednesday, June 11, 2014

A Passion, Not a Purpose

"With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not--they cannot be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind."

~ Edgar Allen Poe

Source: Quotery.com > Topics > Dreams > Edgar Allen Poe

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