Angel Quote by Rita Mae Brown

That the play is the tragedy, “Man,” And its hero, the Conqueror Worm.

— Edgar Allan Poe

“But see, amid the mimic rout A crawling shape intrude! A blood-red thing that writhes from out The scenic solitude! It writhes!- it writhes!-…

— Edgar Allan Poe

Out- out are the lights- out all! And, over each quivering form, The curtain, a funeral pall, Comes down with the rush of a…

— Edgar Allan Poe

It is supposable that, in the eyes of angels, a struggle down a dark lane and a battle of Leipsic differ in nothing but…

— Robert Aris Willmott

“The Conqueror Worm Lo! 'tis a gala night Within the lonesome latter years! An angel throng, bewinged, bedight In veils, and drowned in tears,…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“The hero, the villain, or modern tragic character. A modern Achilles who inflicts his own arrow. "The Wings of the Seraph”

— Jeffrey LeBlanc

“Seen like that, he was just a shadow; darkness, a nothingness, before real power. The men of this world, epics included, would pass from…

— Brandon Sanderson

When I got to the end of this play, I realized I was trying to make Angel do something that had not been justified…

— Pearl Cleage

Character is constructed amidst the tempests of the World

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“We picture the world as thick with conquering and elate humanity, but here, with the bugles of the tempest peeling, it was hard to…

— Stephen Crane

“And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the…

— Frederik Pohl

“The plot, then, is the first principle, and, as it were, the soul of a tragedy; Character holds the second place.”

— Aristotle