Beauty; the death, then, of a beautiful woman is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world. - Edgar Allan Poe (The Philosophy of Composition Quotes)

Beauty; the death, then, of a beautiful woman is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

Source:The Philosophy of Composition (Graham's Magazine, April 1846)
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Edgar Allan Poe (The Philosophy of Composition Quotes)