Able Quote by John Astin

“I can see prose has taken an unfortunate turn toward utility in the past century,” he said with obvious regret. “I’m afraid Poe and…

— D. Nathan Hilliard

“The difficulty with Poe is not figuring out which of his stories rise to the level required of this collection, but rather which of…

— Andrew Barger

Poe had this curious kind of alchemical courage, where he took all the terrible things and terrors that happened in his life, all this…

— John Cusack

Poe is a kind of Hawthorne and delirium tremens.

— Leslie Stephen

Poe wrote like a drunkard and a man who is not accustomed to pay his debts.

— Arthur Twining Hadley

Every poet depends upon generations who wrote in his native tongue; he inherits styles and forms elaborated by those who lived before him. At…

— Czeslaw Milosz

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

— John Green

The surrealist thinks he has outstripped the whole of literary history when he has written (here a word that there is no need to…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

If Edgar Allan Poe were alive today, his agent would be constantly slapping him upside the head with tightly rolled copies of his brilliant…

— Dean Koontz

He is, I think, already pondering a magisterial project: that of buggering the English language, the ultimate revenge of the colonialised.

— Angela Carter

Language is always evolving. It's difficult to read Shakespeare now because language has shifted. Similarly, kids these days can get to the point really…

— Erik Qualman

Nas' Illmatic blew my mind when I first heard it. The poetry was done on such a high level that in a way, it…

— Erik Parker