Famous quotes containing the words poems, edgar, allan and/or poe:
“Suppertime I float toward you
from the stewpot
holding poems you shrug off
and you kiss me like a mosquito.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“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)
“Thou wast all that to me, love,
For which my soul did pine:”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)
“The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)