Quotes of: Poe Keyword

I think that Poe is so resonant because he represents that part of us that is in misery or sorrowful or wants to explore the darkness. He wrote a great story called 'The Imp of the Perverse' about the instinct towards self-destruction. Poe is the god...

John Cusack

I started to drink heavily, comfortably caught in the tentacle-like clutches of alcohol.

The Poe Consequence

You call it hope — that fire of fire! It is but agony of desire.

Edgar Allan Poe: Selected Poems

One of his eyes resembled that of a vulture; A pale blue eye with a film over it.

The Poe Consequence

I have no words — alas! — to tell The loveliness of loving well!

Edgar Allan Poe: Selected Poems

What an incomparable creature is the sea! ("Absolute Evil")

American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps

I guess one of the reasons I'm doing the Poe piece is that I think Poe demonstrates that no matter how difficult things are, if you continue to move forward in life, you can eventually become victorious, even if it's later in life.

John Astin

The embrace at the airport and stolen glances of Poe wasn't enough for him. Oliver needed to be closer to her again--emotionally and physically. His stomach clenched. Why couldn't Poe be his?

Something's Amiss

Nature seems to welcome defiance of conventions, and to say, with a smile, 'So, the truant has come back again!' ("Absolute Evil")

American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps

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Nevermore

He didn’t like the idea of leaving unfinished business behind. He had wanted definite answers about the heart attacks to be able to turn the page on who or what caused so many of his brothers to die.

The Poe Consequence

El cuento requiere una reducción del campo narrativo análoga al estrechamiento de conciencia que acompaña a las ideas fijas. En cierto modo, el cuentista procede como un obseso.

De Poe a Kafka para una teoría del cuento

He tried to get drunk, “to forget about life for awhile,” as that old Billy Joel song once said, but the scotch couldn't anesthetize his pain and provide a retreat from the reality of his latest failures.

The Poe Consequence

Eloquence is the poetry of prose.

William C. Bryant

Children, brought up naturally and in freedom, not only have imagination, but live in a world of imagination more real to them than our reality. ("Absolute Evil")

American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps

We did a Tarot card reading. She told me different things, most of them depressing and worth forgetting. But what I'll always remember is her prediction of my death, and how I'd become a kind of ghost, ‘wandering’ she said, with a ‘spiritual re...

The Poe Consequence

It's not easy to define poetry.

Bob Dylan

Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

John Dryden

Poetry is a sort of homecoming.

Paul Celan

The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it.

Sylvia Plath

The crown of literature is poetry.

W. Somerset Maugham