Famous quotes containing the words poetry, edgar, allan and/or poe:
“Like a poetry lesson til sooner
Or later it faltered at the line where”
—W.H. (Wystan Hugh)
“All my humor is based upon destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I’d be standing on the breadline right in back of J. Edgar Hoover.”
—Lenny Bruce (1925–1966)
“How much more intense is the excitement wrought in the feelings of a crowd by the contemplation of human agony, than that brought about by the most appalling spectacles of inanimate matter.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)
“Hear the sledges with the bells—
Silver bells!”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)