Famous quotes containing the words poe, singer and/or present:
“Aouda: Mr. Fogg, why must you be so ... so British?
Phileas Fogg: Madam, I am what I am.
Aouda: No. You’re kind and warm and generous.”
—James Poe (1921–1980)
“The question is not ... if art is enough to fulfill my life, but if I am true to the path I have set for myself, if I am the best I can be in the things I do. Am I living up to the reasons I became a singer in the first place?”
—Kathleen Battle (b. 1948)
“yet when all is said
It was the dream itself enchanted me:
Character isolated by a deed
To engross the present and dominate memory.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)