Famous quotes containing the words poetry, edgar, allan and/or poe:
“Much of our poetry has the very best manners, but no character.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“Thats life. Whichever way you turn, fate sticks out a foot to trip you.”
—Martin Goldsmith, and Edgar G. Ulmer. Al Roberts (Tom Neal)
“If in many of my productions terror has been the thesis, I maintain that terror is not of Germany, but of the soul.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (18091849)
“The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (18091849)