“you ruptured the love lakes of my longing and scattered the continents of my heart.” — K. Y. Robinson Copy Share Image
Poe's saying that a long poem is a sequence of short ones is perfectly just. — John Drinkwater Copy Share Image
I was warped early by Ray Bradbury and Edgar Allan Poe. I was very fond of Franz Kafka. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce. — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“Poe is to poetry what I am to duck farming. You can quote me on that. And if that’s not good enough,… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“The esteemed Reverend Rufus Griswold is everything I aspire to be, though I fear I shall never soar so quite as high… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“It illuminated a vision Dante could not have imagined in his wildest nightmares, nor Poe in the grasp of an uncontrollable delirium.” — Alan Dean Foster Copy Share Image
“Headache is always preferable to heartache, and if you’re focusing on not throwing up, you aren’t thinking about how the friends of… — T. Kingfisher Copy Share Image
Poe was such a tragic and brilliant figure; he's somebody whom I've been somewhat obsessed with my whole life. I first read… — Rose McGowan Copy Share Image
“Why was he here? Why was he always, always, always around? Didn’t he have a life? Didn’t he have anything better to… — Diana Peterfreund Copy Share Image
Reading Poe was like a near-death experience, the kind that makes you feel fragile and free in its wake. I felt almost… — Koren Zailckas Copy Share Image
I remember when I was very young, I had a fever - a long rheumatic fever in bed for four months. And… — Dario Argento Copy Share Image
There are things so deep and complex that only intuition can reach it in our stage of development as human beings. And… — John Astin Copy Share Image
My English teachers gave me a copy of Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale' when I left high school, which has always been very… — Samantha Shannon Copy Share Image
“What kind of dark, twisted mind preys on young women? I think it was Poe that said the death of a beautiful… — Bruce Crown Copy Share Image
“Hey," said Shadow. "Huginn or Muninn, or whoever you are." The bird turned, head tipped, suspiciously, on one side, and it stared… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Epilepsy is a disease in the shadows. Patients are often reluctant to admit their condition - even to close family, friends or… — Lynda Resnick Copy Share Image
“Is it also true that you drank to excess?” Isobel asked, flipping to the next index card. Poe scoffed at the question,… — Kelly Creagh Copy Share Image
“Sing a song of suspense in which the players die. Four and twenty ravens in an Edgar Allan Pie. When the pie… — Jessica McHugh Copy Share Image
“My dear reader, have you seen the bizarre contraption that the inhabitants of this futuristic age carry in their pockets? It is… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“I Hear the sledges with the bells - Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle,… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
I got my first show at Blum & Poe because Paul McCarthy postponed his show, and they came to my studio and… — Mark Grotjahn Copy Share Image
“Take me back to those days, when you knew of my love, yet liked me nonetheless, and when I smiled at you,… — C. Madan Copy Share Image
“If I could dwell where Israfel hath dwelt and he where I he might not sing so wildly well a mortal melody… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Poe had this curious kind of alchemical courage, where he took all the terrible things and terrors that happened in his life,… — John Cusack Copy Share Image
I think that Poe is so resonant because he represents that part of us that is in misery or sorrowful or wants… — John Cusack Copy Share Image
“P—Jamie!” I called. He waded back toward me. “I’m starting to think my name is Pajamie.” “Your name should be Pajerky. You… — Diana Peterfreund Copy Share Image
“And thus, as a closer and still closer intimacy admitted me more unreservedly into recesses if his spirit, the more bitterly did… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“Madeline lived there with her twin brother, Roderick Usher, who was nothing like the richest man in Europe. Even by Ruravia’s small,… — T. Kingfisher Copy Share Image
Authors I've longed to write like - but realize I actually can't even begin to - include Poe, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Kafka,… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
“Men have called me mad; but the question is not settled whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence -- whether… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
