Poe Quotes

Poe Quote of the day

The past is a pebble in my shoe.

The modern story begun, one might say, with Edgar Allan Poe, which proceeds inexorably, like a machine destined to accomplish its mission with the maximum economy of means.

I have before suggested that a genuine blackguard is never without a pocket-handkerchief.

A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong.

If I'm too old to be Emo, how do you account for the very Emo and very old Edgar Allan Poe? Checkmate!

I was born on the same day as Edgar Allan Poe and Dolly Parton: January 19. I am absolutely certain that this affects my writing in some way.

The sky was the color of Edgar Allan Poe's pajamas.

I've been influenced by poets as diverse as Dylan Thomas, Lewis Carroll, and Edgar Allan Poe.

I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms.

By 'scientifiction' I mean the Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, and Edgar Allan Poe type of story-a charming romance intermingled with scientific fact and prophetic vision

The actual American childhood is less Norman Rockwell and Walt Disney than Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe.

Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allan Poe.

I briefly considered doing Edgar Allan Poe and just swearing a lot.

A woman being never at a loss... the devil always sticks by them.

I do like a good mystery. I'm reading Edgar Allan Poe now. I also like autobiographies.

I was warped early by Ray Bradbury and Edgar Allan Poe. I was very fond of Franz Kafka.

I would say that Edgar Allan Poe, [Georges] Perec, Thomas Pynchon, and [Jorge Luis] Borges are all boy-writers. These are writers who take... a kind of demonic joy in writing.

I've named a couple things after Edgar Allan Poe: the cat, and my garden upstate, where I only planted black flowers and purple flowers - and there's a raven statue.

Detective fiction could not have existed without Edgar Allan Poe.

Edgar Allan Poe is considered the great writer of horror stories, perhaps the greatest - I will say the greatest

The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess

The difficulty with Poe is not figuring out which of his stories rise to the level required of this collection, but rather which of his stories to exclude from it.

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

While doing an enquiry on renowned horror author, “Edgar Allen Poe” I was astonished to notice how more successful his biographical books sold compared to his own books.

It is a happiness to wonder

At midnight, in the month of June, I stand beneath the mystic moon.

Don't let your past dictate your future,

For the moon never beams without bringing me dreamsOf the beautiful Annabel Lee

I have been happy, though in a dream.I have been happy-and I love the theme:Dreams! in their vivid colouring of lifeAs in that fleeting, shadowy, misty strife

It illuminated a vision Dante could not have imagined in his wildest nightmares, nor Poe in the grasp of an uncontrollable delirium.

A feeling, for which I have no name, has taken possession of my soul.

One of his eyes resembled that of a vulture

Edgar Allan Poe’s writings showed me perfectly that there can be such fragile beauty and purity located in darkness and sorrow.

From childhood's hour I have not beenAs others were

It’s a case of mistaken identity. It’s one big mistake. You weren’t even in the country when it happened.”Maja in the short story 'Metro' by Steen Langstrup

I blush, I burn, I shudder, while I pen the damnable atrocity.

The catacombs where ghostly bodies lie. In the silence you hear the screams go by.

Sometimes I’m terrified of my heart

Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is utterly impossible to parody a Creationist in such a way that someone won't mistake it for the genuine article.

What kind of dark, twisted mind preys on young women? I think it was Poe that said the death of a beautiful woman is the most poetical thing in the universe, and if that was true… I was John Milton.

Every moment of the nightForever changing placesAnd they put out the star-lightWith the breath from their pale faces

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.

I have graven it within the hills, and my vengeance upon the dust within the rock.

I was a child and she was a child, In this kingdom by the sea, But we loved with a love that was more than love— I and my Annabel Lee—

you rupturedthe love lakes of my longingand scattered the continents of my heart.