Famous quotes containing the words poetry, edgar, allan and/or poe:
“Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable.”
—W.H. (Wystan Hugh)
“You hear that, Vitus? The phone is dead. Even the phone is dead.”
—Peter Ruric, and Edgar G. Ulmer. Edgar G. Ulmer. Hjalmar Poelzig (Boris Karloff)
“It is the curse of a certain order of mind, that it can never rest satisfied with the consciousness of its ability to do a thing. Still less is it content with doing it. It must both know and show how it was done.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)
“Hear the sledges with the bells—
Silver bells!”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)