Quotes from Hervey Allen

Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal civilization with its aristocracy and slaves has departed with the economic system upon which it rested.

Local color has a fatal tendency to remain local; but it is also true that the universal often borders on the void.

In a continent but recently settled, many parts of which have as yet little historical or cultural background, the material for this volume has been gathered from a section that was one of the first to be colonized.

Religions change; beer and wine remain.

Legends are material to be moulded, and not facts to be recorded.

Religions change; beer and wine remain.

If Poe haunted her grave at night as tradition asserts, the nature of his experiences in a dark cemetery with the sound of the night wind through the funereal gratings and tall grave grasses must have been searing to the soul of one who was scarcely more than a boy.

Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.