List of Songs Based On Poems - Edgar Allan Poe

Famous quotes by edgar allan poe:

“Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)

“The want of an international Copy-Right Law, by rendering it nearly impossible to obtain anything from the booksellers in the way of remuneration for literary labor, has had the effect of forcing many of our very best writers into the service of the Magazines and Reviews.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)

“Tell a scoundrel, three or four times a day, that he is the pink of probity, and you make him at least the perfection of ‘respectability’ in good earnest. On the other hand, accuse an honorable man, too petinaciously, of being a villain, and you fill him with a perverse ambition to show you that you are not altogether in the wrong.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)

“As an individual, I myself feel impelled to fancy ... a limitless succession of Universes.... Each exists, apart and independently, in the bosom of its proper and particular God.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)

“‘Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!’
Quoth the Raven, ‘Nevermore.’”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1845)