Poe for Your Problems Quotes

“My personal suspicion is that humans have evolved to feel as though we should make sense of our pain somehow, in the same way we feel strangely compelled to find uses for stale bread or driftwood.”
― Catherine Baab-Muguira, Poe for Your Problems: Uncommon Advice from History's Least Likely Self-Help Guru

“It is true Poe’s life was a dumpster fire. That’s precisely the point. He dealt with horrendous circumstances. He had amply justifiable mental-health issues as well as an impossible personality, and he lived in an absurdly depressing era full of racism, sexism, classism, injustice, misfortune, poverty, disease, and death. You and I live in such an era, too.”
― Catherine Baab-Muguira, Poe for Your Problems: Uncommon Advice from History's Least Likely Self-Help Guru