List of Songs Based On Poems - Edgar Allan Poe

Famous quotes by edgar allan poe:

“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)

“And we passed to the end of a vista,
But were stopped by the door of a tomb—
By the door of a legended tomb;
And I said—’ What is written, sweet sister,
On the door of this legended tomb?’
She replied—’Ulalume—Ulalume!—
‘Tis the vault of thy lost Ulalume!’”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)

“The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1845)

“We have ... a thirst unquenchable, to allay which he has not shown us the crystal springs. This thirst belongs to the immortality of Man.... It is no mere appreciation of the Beauty before us—but a wild effort to reach the Beauty above.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)

“He made no resistance whatever, and was stabbed in the back.... I must not dwell upon the fearful repast.... Words have no power to impress the mind with the exquisite horror of their reality.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)