If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully express the pent-up violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average family.
Someone said, in a simplistic way maybe, that all American poetry is either cooked or raw, and if it's cooked, it comes from Poe.
Poe is the only impeccable writer. He was never mistaken.
Une danse est un poe' me. A dance is a poem.
I didn't even know a heart could beat so loudly. . . it reminds me of an Edgar Allen Poe story we had to read in one of our. . . classes. . . it's supposed to be a story about guilt and the dangers of civil disobedience, but when I first read it I thought it seemed kind of lame and melodramatic. Now I get it, though. Poe must have snuck out a lot when he was young.
I made use of the college library by borrowing books other than scientific books, such as all of the plays by George Bernard Shaw, the writing of Edgar Allan Poe. The college library helped me to develop a broader aspect on life.
I read a lot. I always have, but in those two years I gorged myself on books with a voluptuous, almost erotic gluttony. I would go to the local library and take out as many as I could, and then lock myself in the bedsit and read solidly for a week. I went for old books, the older the better - Tolstoy, Poe, Jacobean tragedies, a dusty translation of Laclos - so that when I finally resurfaced, blinking and dazzled, it took me days to stop thinking in their cool, polished, crystalline rhythms.
Edgar Allen Poe really started me when I was 8. I fell in love with everything of his.
Poe was a student of many things, and among those things he read and referred to in his work was the Bible.
While Poe and the Symbolists were exploring the irrational in literature, Freud had begun to explore the resonant figureground double-plot of the conscious and unconscious.
Nos beaux sentiments ne sont-ils pas les poe sies de la volonte ? Aren't our best feelings poetry of the will?
Poe wrote like a drunkard and a man who is not accustomed to pay his debts.
One life is worth the universe. Poe was able to go right into the very depth of life and to demonstrate this.
If the Poe Lock were ever rendered unusable due to a terrorist attack or natural disaster, it would halt commerce on the Great Lakes and these industries would be helpless.
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.
Edgar Allan Poe is considered the great writer of horror stories, perhaps the greatest - I will say the greatest
I briefly considered doing Edgar Allan Poe and just swearing a lot.
I was warped early by Ray Bradbury and Edgar Allan Poe. I was very fond of Franz Kafka.
Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allan Poe.
Poe is a kind of Hawthorne and delirium tremens.
