Quotes About Poe

Point was that Poe's mother died of consumption when he was 3. He sought the image of her in several other women, including the consumption, the lingering death etc. The dying women haunt his work, dominate it (perhaps as cruel women have haunted and dominated you). Dying women arrested the living flow of his sensuality. His sensuality became necrophilic. Et puis après?

I must revert again to the perpetual theme: in the criticism of Melville & Whitman, and even Poe, Lawrence revealed a magnificent force, an understanding beyond all criticism heretofore known. The roughness & simplicity, the apparent laziness of it is disarming. Underneath tho' a terrible power & penetration.)

Poe, como un Ariel hecho hombre, diríase que ha pasado su vida bajo el flotante influjo de un extraño misterio.

It was absolutely the worst way she could have phrased it, as if her voice had been hijacked by what Edgar Allan Poe called the Imp of the Perverse.

Se considera insoluble este misterio por las mismas razones que deberían inducir a considerarlo solucionable. (E. A. Poe. Los crímenes de la calle Morgue)

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells, From the bells, bells, bells.

No me cabe duda que usted cree hacerme una lisonja comparándome con Dupin. Pero en mi opinión, Dupin era un hombre que valía muy poco. […] Sin duda, poseía algo de genio analítico; pero no era, en modo alguno, un fenómeno, según parece imaginárselo Poe.

Pienso en el cuento de Poe: los muros de hierro que se acercan, y el péndulo en forma de cuchillo que oscila por encima de mi corazón. En ciertos momentos se detiene, pero jamás se eleva. No está más que a algunos centímetros de mi piel.

I could hear music playing in the background of works by certain authors, like Poe and Shakespeare. And I discovered Nikki Giovanni when I was in eighth grade. Her writing has a musical energy with pulse and rhythm, almost like jazz or hip-hop.

Sherlock Holmes rose and lit his pipe. "No doubt you think that you are complimenting me in comparing me to Dupin," he observed. "Now, in my opinion, Dupin was a very inferior fellow. That trick of his of breaking in on his friends' thoughts with an apropos remark after a quarter of an hour's silence is really very showy and superficial. He had some analytical genius, no doubt; but he was by no means such a phenomenon as Poe appeared to imagine.

people had the mistaken idea that Poe wrote fantastic stories about the supernatural, when in fact he wrote realistic stories about abnormal psychology.

One important idea I hope is reflected in 'The Poe Shadow' is that fiction can add as much to history as nonfiction does.

POE DAMERON'S first ship was his mother's RZ-1 A-wing.

like Poe, she was what was referred to as a "victory kid," one of the hundreds of millions—if not billions—of sentients who had been conceived in response to the Empire's fall.

I love horror, mystery, and science fiction, and Poe was one of the founding fathers of those worlds.

I still have my high school copy of the collected Poe - missing its covers and pretty worse for the wear.

I am Rabbit. I can be anywhere. I can be everywhere. I am outside time. I am outside dimension.

There are two sofas, and upon one, says Poe, the proprietor lies asleep. But it is sleep as Poe most sought and valued it-not for the sake of rest, but for escape. Sleep, too, is a kind of swooning out of this world.

But it is sleep as Poe most sought and valued it—not for the sake of rest, but for escape. Sleep, too, is a kind of swooning out of this world.

Poe's drunkenness was a mnemonic device, a deliberate method of work, drastic and fatal, no doubt, but suited to his passionate nature. Poe taught himself to drink, just as a careful man of letters makes a deliberate practice of filling his notebooks with notes.

If Baudelaire, in hieroglyphics of the soul, had deciphered the return of the age of the sentiment and ideas, Poe, in the field of morbid psychology had more especially investigated the domain of the soul.

If Baudelaire had made out among the hieroglyphics of the soul the critical age of thought and feeling, it was Poe who, in the sphere of morbid psychology, had carried out the closest scrutiny of the will.

Poe is the only impeccable writer. He was never mistaken.