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Brevity Quote by Edgar Allan Poe

“It is clear that a poem may be improperly brief.…” quote by Edgar Allan Poe
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“It is clear that a poem may be improperly brief. Undue brevity degenerates into mere epigrammatism. A very short poem, while now and then producing a brilliant or vivid, never produces a profound or enduring, effect. There must be the steady pressing down of the stamp upon the wax.”

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