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Edgar Allan Poe Quotes

I need scarcely observe that a poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul. The value of the poem is in the ratio of this elevating excitement.

Edgar Allan Poe

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: January 19, 1809 - October 7, 1849

Topics

Soul Value Excitement Need Poem

Music is always going to be only as sophisticated as the culture that consumes it.

Jimmy Chamberlin

Music Culture Always Going Only

I was very average in the social label scale going through school. I was neither the coolest person in school, nor did I suffer the slings and arrows of being made fun of to such a degree that I couldn't get through the day.

Jim Parsons

Day School Fun Person Degree Going

I don't believe really good plays - interesting plays, complicated plays - can mean just one thing to every single person in the audience.

Joe Mantello

Good Believe Interesting Person Mean

In my opinion butlers ought To know their place, and not to play The Old Retainer night and day.

Joachim du Bellay

Day Opinion Night Place Play Know

I would never disrespect any man, woman, chick or child out there. We're all the same. What goes around comes around, and karma kicks us all in the butt in the end of the day.

Angie Stone

Day Woman Man Child End Disrespect

I don't think of myself as a critic at all. I'm a reviewer and essayist. I mainly hope to share with others my pleasure in the books and authors I write about, though sometimes I do need to cavil and point out shortcomings.

Michael Dirda

Hope Myself Think Sometimes Need

The thing that made Groucho special was the way he used his body parts. He also had a wicked tongue. People didn't realize it, but when Groucho said something, he meant it.

Sidney Sheldon

People Tongue Body Said Special Way

I believe in unity, as opposed to division.

Tom Shadyac

Unity Believe I Believe Division

When you cook, you get to shop. You get to vote if you want the pastured raised pork or the organic grain. You can get to help produce your agricultural system, and you give that up when you outsource your cooking. You become dependent on what's offered - and that's a shame.

Michael Pollan

Cooking Help You Want Vote Become

The main thing that's important to me is getting to do whatever project it is the way that I do what I do, and that's different. To go to an entity - whether it's a traditional film studio or some newer company, or HBO, Amazon or Netflix - they would have to know that I need to work the way I work.

Christopher Guest

Work Me Go Know Important Netflix

Queen songs tend to be about very personal things: personal dreams and personal ambitions.

Brian May

Dreams Queen Personal Things Songs

I adore Biarritz. I first went there in the Eighties, and my wife and I liked it so much that we ended up buying a holiday home there.

Tim Pigott-Smith

Home Wife Holiday First Up Buying