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"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

<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/28506/">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.</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/5759/">Poe, Edgar Allan</a> on <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/tag/opera/">Opera</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a>

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