Allan Poe Quotes

Allan Poe Quote of the day

The past is a pebble in my shoe.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

From childhood's hour I have not beenAs others were

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—

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

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

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

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

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

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

Don't let your past dictate your future,

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

It is a happiness to wonder

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

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.