Edgar Allan Poe — "Why ought the author of the 'Grotesque and Arabesque' to be a good writer of ver…"
Why ought the author of the 'Grotesque and Arabesque' to be a good writer of verses? Because he's a poet to a t. Add t to Poe makes it Poet.
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