Edgar Allan Poe Museum or Edgar Allan Poe House could refer to several places related to author Edgar Allan Poe:
- Edgar Allan Poe Museum (Richmond), in Richmond, Virginia
- Edgar Allan Poe National Historic Site, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum, in Baltimore, Maryland
- Edgar Allan Poe Cottage, the Bronx, New York
- Edgar Allan Poe House (Fayetteville, North Carolina), listed on the NRHP in North Carolina
- Edgar Allan Poe House (Lenoir, North Carolina), listed on the NRHP in North Carolina
Famous quotes containing the words edgar allan poe, edgar allan, allan, poe and/or museum:
“Some sepulcher, remote, alone,
Against whose portal she hath thrown,
In childhood, many an idle stone—
Some tomb from out whose sounding door
She ne’er shall force an echo more,
Thrilling to think, poor child of sin!
It was the dead who groaned within.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)
“The prince had provided all the appliances of pleasure ...: buffoons,... improvisatori,... ballet-dancers,... musicians,... Beauty,... wine. All these and security were within. Without was the “Red Death.””
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)
“As a viewed myself in a fragment of looking-glass..., I was so impressed with a sense of vague awe at my appearance ... that I was seized with a violent tremour.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)
“Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it “the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.” The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of “Artist.””
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1845)
“The back meets the front.”
—Hawaiian saying no. 2650, ‘lelo No’Eau, collected, translated, and annotated by Mary Kawena Pukui, Bishop Museum Press, Hawaii (1983)