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Quotes About Poe

I tell you, he had stolen the body of Edgar Allan Poe—and as he shrieked aloud in his final madness, did not this indeed make him the greatest collector of Poe?
~ Robert Bloch
My favorite author is David Baldacci; I've read all his books. I even have a picture with Baldacci taken during his book-signing in the States.
~ Grace Poe
Poe readied himself. The Resistance will not be intimidated by you. As you wish, then. There is no 'Resistance' in this room. Only the pilot Poe Dameron. And I.
~ Alan Dean Foster
Legend says this map is unobtainable," Poe noted. "How'd you do it?
~ Alan Dean Foster
Poe was standing on the border of the clearing, acting most peculiarly. He took a few steps toward the cabin, the paused, shook his head, and marched back out. He repeated the move a few times before stomping off for good. I stood at the window, confused as hell. Why in the wild... and then it hit me, way, way harder than the water when I'd fallen off the boat. Poe liked me.
~ Diana Peterfreund
The last time I had sex," I said, "was Halloween." He nodded slowly. "That was my birthday." I choked on my waffle. This was getting worse and worse. "No!" "Why do you think they called me 'Poe'?" I had always guessed it was because he was morose and taciturn and creepy. "Um ... because 'Hotstuff' was taken?
~ Diana Peterfreund
There was Malcolm in the front row, his hand resting on the shoulder of the knight I knew as Poe. I looked at the list of names beneath the photo. -James Orcutt. What a ridiculously normal name. I'd half been expecting Darth Vader
~ Diana Peterfreund
Only Poe could have dreamed the rest.
~ Erik Larson
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
I would like to see the technology used to explore more period horror genre works, for example, E. A. Poe.
~ Robert Englund
Poe was such a tragic and brilliant figure; he's somebody whom I've been somewhat obsessed with my whole life. I first read 'The Tell-Tale Heart' at age four.
~ Rose McGowan
No te aconsejo leer a Poe, que inventó el relato plociaco y fue un gran poeta; ni a Conan Dpyle, el papá de Sherlock Holmes. ¿Sabes por qué? Porque sus dectectives son demasiados estrafalarios y cerebrales. No podrían resolver ni el caso más simple en nuestra caótica América Latina.
~ Roberto Ampuero
Books, Mr. Landor!" "I do read, yes." Not much of a library—a scant three rows in all—but mine. Poe's fingers glided along the bindings.
~ Louis Bayard
One life is worth the universe. Poe was able to go right into the very depth of life and to demonstrate this.
~ John Astin
I think Poe had a mission to tell us what it's all about. To answer some of the great questions of life.
~ John Astin
I do not suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
Here once, through an alley Titanic,Of cypress, I roamed with my Soul—Of cypress, with Psyche, my Soul.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
It was down by the dank tarn of Auber,In the ghoul-haunted woodland of Weir.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
And neither the angels in Heaven aboveNor the demons down under the sea,Can ever dissever my soul from the soulOf the beautiful Annabel Lee.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
"Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!"Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore."
~ Edgar Allan Poe
Each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
In her sepulcher there by the sea—In her tomb by the sounding sea.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floorShall be lifted—nevermore!
~ Edgar Allan Poe