With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence; they must not—they cannot at will be excited with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.
from Edgar Allan Poe’s Preface to “The Raven and Other Poems” (1845)
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