Famous quotes containing the words poe, singer and/or present:
“TRUE!—nervous—very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)
“Now the nightingale, the pretty nightingale,
The sweetest singer in all the forest’s choir,
Entreats thee, sweet Peggy, to hear thy true Love’s tale:
Lo! yonder she sitteth, her breast against a briar.”
—Thomas Dekker (1572?–1632?)
“Each your doing,
So singular in each particular,
Crowns what you are doing in the present deeds,
That all your acts are queens.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)