Famous quotes containing the words poems, edgar, allan and/or poe:
“After all, poets shouldn’t be their own interpreters and shouldn’t carefully dissect their poems into everyday prose; that would mean the end of being poets. Poets send their creations into the world, it is up to the reader, the aesthetician, and the critic to determine what they wanted to say with their creations.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)
“The black cat does not die. Those same books, if I am not mistaken, teach that the black cat is deathless. Deathless as evil. It is the origin of the common superstition of the cat with nine lives.”
—Peter Ruric, and Edgar G. Ulmer. Edgar G. Ulmer. Hjalmar Poelzig (Boris Karloff)
“a bolder note than this might swell
From my lyre within the sky.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)
“What I here propound is true: ... if by any means it be now trodden down so that it die, it will “rise again to ... Life Everlasting.””
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)