Who Said It? Poets vs. Songwriters

Who Said It: Tupac Or Shakespeare?

“If you can make it through the night, there's a brighter day.”

• Tupac

• Shakespeare

Answer explanation

Tupac said this in his song, "Dear Mama."

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Who Said It: Tupac Or Shakespeare?

"Cowards die many times before their deaths."

• Tupac

• Shakespeare

Answer explanation

Shakespeare wrote this in Act 2 Scene 2 of "Julius Caesar."

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Who Said It: Tupac Or Shakespeare?

"I exist in the depths of solitude pondering my true goal."

• Tupac

• Shakespeare

Answer explanation

Tupac wrote this in his poem, In the Depths of Solitude.

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Who Said It: Tupac Or Shakespeare?

"Love is too young to know what conscience is."

• Tupac

• Shakespeare

Answer explanation

Shakespeare wrote this in "Sonnet 151."

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Who Said It: Ed Sheeran or Edgar Allan Poe?

"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream."

• Ed Sheeran

• Edgar Allan Poe

Answer explanation

A Dream Within a Dream

BY EDGAR ALLAN POE

Take this kiss upon the brow!

And, in parting from you now,

Thus much let me avow —

You are not wrong, who deem

That my days have been a dream;

Yet if hope has flown away

In a night, or in a day,

In a vision, or in none,

Is it therefore the less gone? 

All that we see or seem

Is but a dream within a dream.

I stand amid the roar

Of a surf-tormented shore,

And I hold within my hand

Grains of the golden sand —

How few! yet how they creep

Through my fingers to the deep,

While I weep — while I weep!

O God! Can I not grasp

Them with a tighter clasp?

O God! can I not save

One from the pitiless wave?

Is all that we see or seem

But a dream within a dream?

Edgar Allan Poe, "A Dream Within a Dream" from The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe, ed. R. W. Griswold. New York: J. S. Redfield, 1850. Public Domain.

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Who Said It: Ed Sheeran or Edgar Allan Poe?

"We loved with a love that was more than love."

• Ed Sheeran

• Edgar Allan Poe

Answer explanation

This is a line from the poem Annabel Lee

BY EDGAR ALLAN POE

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Who Said It: Ed Sheeran or Edgar Allan Poe?

And when the world’s against me is when I really come alive.

• Ed Sheeran

• Edgar Allan Poe

Answer explanation

This is a line from the song Eraser by Ed Sheeran

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Who Said It: Ed Sheeran or Edgar Allan Poe?

"I've fallen for your eyes but they don't know me yet."

• Ed Sheeran

• Edgar Allan Poe

Answer explanation

This is a line from the song Kiss Me by Ed Sheeran.

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Who Said It: Taylor Swift or T. S. Eliot?

"The end is where we start from."

• Taylor Swift

• T. S. Eliot

Answer explanation

This is T. S. Eliot!

He wrote this in his poem "Little GIiding."

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Who Said It: Taylor Swift or T. S. Eliot?

"I was drowning, that's when I can finally breathe."

• Taylor Swift

• T. S. Eliot

Answer explanation

Taylor sang this on her album 1989. This lyric is from "Clean.

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