Famous quotes containing the words poems, edgar, allan and/or poe:
“I tell it stories now and then
and feed it images like honey.
I will not speculate today
with poems that think they’re money.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“You sold Marmaros to the Russians. Scurried away in the night and left us to die. Is it to be wondered at that you should choose this place to build your house? The masterpiece of construction, built upon the masterpiece of destruction, the masterpiece of murder. The murderer of ten thousand men returns to the place of his crime.”
—Peter Ruric, and Edgar G. Ulmer. Edgar G. Ulmer. Dr. Vitus Werdegast (Bela Lugosi)
“The mimes become its food,
And seraphs sob at vermin fangs
In human gore imbued.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)
“The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)