Famous quotes containing the words poe and/or singer:
“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 usbut a wild effort to reach the Beauty above.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (18091849)
“The singer stopped playing and went to bed
While the Weary Blues echoed through his head.
He slept like a rock or a man thats dead.”
—Langston Hughes (19021967)