Quotes by Poe, Edgar Allan

I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence. >>

We now demand the light artillery of the intellect; we need the curt, >>

After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that c >>

Quotations about Opera

The banging and slamming and booming and crashing were something beyon >>

If music in general is an imitation of history, opera in particular is >>

Opera in English, is about as sensible as baseball in Italian. >>

I never can hear a crowd of people singing and gesticulating, all together, at an Italian opera, without fancying myself at Athens, listening to that particular tragedy, by Sophocles, in which he introduces a full chorus of turkeys, who set about bewailing the death of Meleager.

Poe, Edgar Allan