Coffee With Poe Quotes

“Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man. For my own part, there is no seducing me from the path. I shall be a litterateur, at least, all my life; nor would I abandon the hopes which still lead me on for all the gold in California.”

EDGAR ALLAN POE TO FREDERICK WILLIAM THOMAS
FEBRUARY 14, 1849”
― Andrew Barger, Coffee With Poe

“. . . never seen him inspired by any more dangerous stimulant than strong coffee, of which he was very fond & of which [he] drank freely. MacIntosh says that the measure of a man's brain is the amount of coffee he can drink with impunity.

SARAH HELEN WHITMAN (POE'S FIANCÉE) TO JOHN INGRAM
DECEMBER 13, 1874”
― Andrew Barger, Coffee With Poe

“Sleep is a vortex in your tales, swirling a person into deep places of their minds where consciousness is scared to tread.”
― Andrew Barger, Coffee with Poe: A Novel of Edgar Allan Poe's Life

“Is not our purest form of writing that done without the taint of money?”
― Andrew Barger, Coffee With Poe

“boundaries which divide Life and Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends and where the other begins?”
― Andrew Barger, Coffee with Poe: A Novel of Edgar Allan Poe's Life