Poe-Land Quotes

“When you place a man like Poe in your rot garden, you need to holy it up real fast, so three years after Poe was buried, they built a church in the graveyard. Actually, they built a church on top of the graveyard.”
― J.W. Ocker, Poe-Land: The Hallowed Haunts of Edgar Allan Poe

“Be bold—reach much—write much—publish little—keep aloof from the little wits, and fear nothing.”
― J.W. Ocker, Poe-Land: The Hallowed Haunts of Edgar Allan Poe

“That’s generally the way things go. The States has cool stuff, but we don’t know it until Europe clues us in. Like the blues.”
― J.W. Ocker, Poe-Land: The Hallowed Haunts of Edgar Allan Poe