Famous quotes containing the words poetry, edgar, allan and/or poe:
“If there’s no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.”
—Robert Graves (1895–1985)
“If there was ever a dissenter from the national optimism ... it was surely Edgar Allan Poe—without question the bravest and most original, if perhaps also the least orderly and judicious, of all the critics that we have produced.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)
“The Bostonians are really, as a race, far inferior in point of anything beyond mere intellect to any other set upon the continent of North America. They are decidedly the most servile imitators of the English it is possible to conceive.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1845)
“The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)