Oppose Quotes (1)
A poem in my opinion, is opposed to a work of science by having for its immediate object, pleasure, not truth.
'Letter to B——— ———', in Southern Literary Messenger (Jul 1836). Quoted in Poems of Edgar Allan Poe (1917), 169, and Appendix, 311. According to different commentators, B——— may be merely a fictional character, or Bulwer-Lyton, or the publisher Elam Bliss.
See also: | Immediate (2) | Object (14) | Opinion (40) | Pleasure (18) | Poem (53) | Science (463) | Truth (247)
