Top 80 Mr Poe Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Mr Poe

#1. The siblings wished that if Mr. Poe were really jealous of them he would attend Prufrock Preparatory School himself, and they could work at the bank.

Lemony Snicket

#2. Klaus, and Sunny had been many, many times to Mr. Poe's office at the bank, where he coughed and talked on the phone and made decisions

Lemony Snicket

#3. In spite of Mr. Poe's fame, the pair made me feel out of sorts, and sad. In one of the busiest cities in the world, they seemed to exist on a bleak island of their own making, their backs turned against the social tide lapping at the battered door.

Lynn Cullen

#4. Mr. Poe couldn't think of anything else to say that might have comforted the Baudelaire orphans, but I wish now that I had the power to go back in time and speak to these three sobbing children.

Lemony Snicket

#5. How did you do that?" Mr. Poe asked. "Nice girls shouldn't know how to do such things."
"My sister is a nice girl," Klaus said, "and she knows how to do all sorts of things.

Lemony Snicket

#6. I am often very lonely up on this hill by myself, and when Mr. Poe wrote to me about your troubles I didn't want you to be as lonely as I was when I lost my dear Ike.

Lemony Snicket

#7. Did Mr. Poe write as a boy?
Dear me, yes. It was all he had, what with losing his mother as a toddling child and then being cast aside by his foster father. I think sometimes his pen was his only friend in the world

Lynn Cullen

#8. This is not a game, you horrible man,' Mr. Poe said. 'Dominos is a game. Water polo is a game. Murder is a crime, and you will go to jail for it. I will drive you to the police station in town right this very minute.

Lemony Snicket

#9. Mr. Poe meant well, but a jar of mustard probably also means well and would do a better job of keeping the Baudelaires out of danger.

Lemony Snicket

#10. I give up," Mr. Poe said, and coughed into his handkerchief. "Five hundred is too much to pay for a big herring statue.

Lemony Snicket

#11. I am sorry to say that Mr. Poe had not done a very good job so far, and that the Baudelaires had learned that the only thing they could rely on with Mr. Poe was that he always had a cough.

Lemony Snicket

#12. Not yet. But Mr. Poe is teaching me lots of things. Tonight he's going to teach me the power of sleep.

Lucian Bane

#13. Mr. Poe opened his mouth to say something, but erupted into a brief fit of coughing. "I have made arrangements," he said finally, "for you to be raised by a distant relative of yours who lives on the other side of town. His name is Count Olaf.

Lemony Snicket

#14. Idea. Mr. Poe meant well, but a jar of mustard probably also means well and would do a better job of keeping the Baudelaires out of danger. Violet,

Lemony Snicket

#15. It pain me to tell you that once again Count Olaf would appear with yet another disgusting scheme, and that Mr. Poe would once again fail to do anything even remotely helpful.

Lemony Snicket

#16. Time after time he[Count Olaf] had come very close to succeeding, and time after time the Baudelaire orphans had revealed his plan, and time after time he had escaped-and all Mr. Poe had ever done was cough.

Lemony Snicket

#17. You are a strange man, Mr. Poe." "So I've been told," Edgar said. "I'd rather be strange than boring. It's a flaw in my character.

David Niall Wilson

#18. I'm afraid the engine is quite dead," Mr. Poe called out.
"And before long," Stephano muttered to the children, "you will be too."
"I'm sorry," Mr. Poe said. "I couldn't hear you.

Lemony Snicket

#19. I could have clasped the red walls to my bosom as a garment of eternal peace. "Death," I said, "any death but that of the pit!" Fool! might I have not known that into the pit it was the object of the burning iron to urge me?

Edgar Allan Poe

#20. It is a happiness to wonder;
it is a happiness to dream.

Edgar Allan Poe

#21. Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

Edgar Allan Poe

#22. You call it hope - that fire of fire!
It is but agony of desire.

Edgar Allan Poe

#23. The Romans worshipped their standard; and the Roman standard happened to be an eagle. Our standard is only one tenth of an eagle,
a dollar, but we make all even by adoring it with tenfold devotion.

Edgar Allan Poe

#24. The want of an international Copy-Right Law, by rendering it nearly impossible to obtain anything from the booksellers in the wayof remuneration for literary labor, has had the effect of forcing many of our very best writers into the service of the Magazines and Reviews.

Edgar Allan Poe

#25. And, though my faith be broken,
And, though my heart be broken,
Here is a ring, as token
That I am happy now!

Edgar Allan Poe

#26. Leave my loneliness unbroken

Edgar Allan Poe

#27. The death then of a beautiful woman is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world, and equally is it beyond doubt that the lips best suited for such topic are those of a bereaved lover.

Edgar Allan Poe

#28. Poe isn't for everyone. He's too heady a draught for that. He may not be for you. But there are secrets to appreciating Poe, and I shall let you in on one of the most important ones: read him aloud

Neil Gaiman

#29. If we examine a work of ordinary art, by means of a powerful microscope, all traces of resemblance to nature will disappear - but the closest scrutiny of the photogenic drawing discloses only a more absolute truth, a more perfect identity of aspect with the thing represented.

Edgar Allan Poe

#30. Art was, for Poe, the only method by which one could penetrate the shapeless empirical world in the search for order, and

Edgar Allan Poe

#31. Yes, it would nice for this fifty year period, this cradle of all vampire short stories in the English language, to include a vampire tale by Edgar Allan Poe. But the sad answer is that Poe never penned a vampire story.

Andrew Barger

#32. Mervyn Peake is a finer poet than Edgar Allan Poe, and he is therefore able to maintain his world of fantasy brilliantly through three novels. It (Gormenghast trilogy) is a very, very great work ... a classic of our age.

Mervyn Peake

#33. Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

Edgar Allan Poe

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

Arthur Twining Hadley

#35. I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.

Edgar Allan Poe

#36. The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.

Edgar Allan Poe

#37. Lo! 'tis a gala night
Within the lonesome latter years!
An angel throng, bewinged, bedight
In veils, and drowned in tears,
Sit in a theatre, to see
A play of hopes and fears [ ... ]

Edgar Allan Poe

#38. There lives no man who at some period has not been tormented, for example, by an earnest desire to tantalize a listener by circumlocution.

Edgar Allan Poe

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

Jackie Mae

#40. And if Poe were alive, he would not have to invent horror; horror would invent him.

Richard Wright

#41. I'm just sayin'. I've have been around this block a lot longer than Siri.

Mark Andrew Poe

#42. A hero is someone who is selfless.

Mark Andrew Poe

#43. Something which, for want of a more definite term at present, I must be permitted to be called queer; but which Mr. Coleridge would have called mystical, Mr. Kant pantheistical, Mr. Carlyle twistical, and Mr. Emerson hyperquizzitistical.

Edgar Allan Poe

#44. To speak algebraically, Mr. M. is execrable, but Mr. G. is (x + 1)- ecrable.

Edgar Allan Poe

#45. And then there are times, Mr. Osgood, when one must just let go." His gaze softened. "I believe," he said after a moment, "that those are the happiest of times.

Edgar Allan Poe

#46. Mr. Snow.'
'Detective Winter.'
'Do you give all of the men in your life a murder case for Christmas, or just the really special ones?

C.S. Poe

#47. Many years ago, I contracted an intimacy with a Mr. William Legrand. He was of an ancient Huguenot family, and had once been wealthy; but a series of misfortunes had reduced him to want.

Edgar Allan Poe

#48. There is then no analogy whatever between the operations of the Chess-Player, and those of the calculating machine of Mr. Babbage , and if we choose to call the former a pure machine we must be prepared to admit that it is, beyond all comparison, the most wonderful of the inventions of mankind.

Edgar Allan Poe

#49. 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.

Quentin Crisp

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

Andy Richter

#51. Storytelling explores the problem with people. Stories without conflict are bad stories that no one repeats. Conflict describes the reality of human life and interaction with others. The resolution of the conflict in which everyone lives happily ever after reflects the human yearning for hope.

Harry Lee Poe

#52. Ear in mind that, in general, it is the object of our newspapers rather to create a sensation-to make a point-than to further the cause of truth." Dupin in "The Mystery of Marie Roget

Edgar Allan Poe

#53. Heroes can lose their way. Sometimes, heroes can go missing from even themselves. Have you ever had that feeling in your own life?

Mark Andrew Poe

#54. all the night-tide, I lie down by the side Of my darling - my darling - my life and my bride, In her sepulchre there by the sea - In her tomb by the side of the sea.

Edgar Allan Poe

#55. He clasped his hands to his ears as if he would tear his very brain out!" A sample line from Shadow my psychological/horror compared to Poe!

C.S. Dixon

#56. there is no beauty without some strangeness.

Edgar Allan Poe

#57. Because I've lived a risky and unconventional life, I don't often struggle for subjects to write about.

Poe Ballantine

#58. Once upon a midnight dreary, while

Edgar Allan Poe

#59. Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December
And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
Eagerly I wished the morrow; - vainly I had sought to borrow
From my books surcease of sorrow - sorrow for the lost Lenore.

Edgar Allan Poe

#60. I hold that a long poem does not exist. I maintain that the phrase, "a long poem," is simply a flat contradiction in terms.

Edgar Allan Poe

#61. The viol, the violet, and the vine.
Resignedly beneath the sky

Edgar Allan Poe

#62. If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human sentiment ...

Edgar Allan Poe

#63. And his brow was lofty with thought, and his eye wild with care; and, in the few furrows upon his cheek I read the fables of sorrow, and weariness, and disgust with mankind, and a longing after solitude.

Edgar Allan Poe

#64. As I imagined, the ship proves to be in a current; if that appellation can properly be given to a tide, which, howling and shrieking by the white ice, thunders on to the southward with a velocity like the headlong dashing of a cataract.

Edgar Allan Poe

#65. Thine image and--a name--a name!
Two separate--yet most intimate things.

Edgar Allan Poe

#66. En ge ne ral, plus un peuple est civilise , poli, moins ses moeurs sont poe tiques; tout s'affaiblit en s'adoucissant. Ingeneral, themore civilized and refinedthepeople, the less poetic are its morals; everything weakens as it mellows.

Denis Diderot

#67. The sky was the color of Edgar Allen Poe's pajamas.

Tom Robbins

#68. Everything you have ever read about vampires - most of it is inaccurate or downright false. We are not beautiful, we don't turn into bats, we don't shrivel up in the sunlight and we are most definitely not afraid of something as fickle as garlic.

K.A. Poe

#69. His heart is a suspended lute; As soon as you touch it, it resonates.

Edgar Allan Poe

#70. There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction.

Edgar Allan Poe

#71. When I first started reading poetry, all the poets I read - Edgar Allan Poe, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Greenleaf Whittier - were rhyme poets. That's what captured me.

Marv Levy

#72. The greater amount of truth is impulsively uttered; thus the greater amount is spoken, not written.

Edgar Allan Poe

#73. Poe gives the sense for the first time in America, that literature is serious, not a matter of courtesy but of truth.

William Carlos Williams

#74. Amazon is evil, like anything big, but we can't help if it flows the very center of literature.

Poe Ballantine

#75. The usual derivation of the word Metaphysics is not to be sustainedthe science is supposed to take its name from its superiority to physics. The truth is, that Aristotle's treatise on Morals is next in succession to his Book of Physics.

Edgar Allan Poe