List of Songs Based On Poems - Edgar Allan Poe

Famous quotes by edgar allan poe:

“Their hotels are bad. Their pumpkin pies are delicious. Their poetry is not so good.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1845)

“Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it ‘the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.’ The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of ‘Artist.’”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1845)

“The death ... of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)

“We now demand the light artillery of the intellect; we need the curt, the condensed, the pointed, the readily diffused—in place of the verbose, the detailed, the voluminous, the inaccessible. On the other hand, the lightness of the artillery should not degenerate into pop-gunnery—by which term we may designate the character of the greater portion of the newspaper press—their sole legitimate object being the discussion of ephemeral matters in an ephemeral manner.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1845)

“Far in the forest, dim and old,
For her may some tall vault unfold—”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)