Poe

Famous quotes containing the word poe:

    ““There is no exquisite beauty,” says Bacon, Lord Verulam, speaking truly of all the forms and genera of beauty, “without some strangeness in the proportion.””
    —Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)

    “Gaily bedight,
    A gallant knight,
    In sunshine and in shadow,
    Had journeyed long,
    Singing a song,
    In search of Eldorado.”
    —Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)

    “When the light was extinguished,
    She covered me warm,
    And she prayed to the angels
    To keep me from harm—”
    —Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)