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I hold that a long poem does not exist. I maintain that the phrase, "a long poem," is simply a flat contradiction in terms.

Edgar Allan Poe
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Edgar Allan Poe, Gary Richard Thompson (1984). “Essays and Reviews”, p.71, Library of America
I hold that a long poem does not exist. I maintain that the phrase, a long poem, is simply a flat contradiction in terms.