A Mystery of Mysteries Quotes

“I have great faith in fools--self-confidence my friends will call it.' -- EDGAR ALLAN POE”
― Mark Dawidziak, A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe

“The misconception that bothers me the most is the notion of madness,” Pettit said. “It devalues him as a great artist. He was so hard working, so dedicated, so exacting, but some rather believe he had to be insane to write about insane characters. It’s the opposite. You have to be in complete command of your art to depict that so effectively.”
― Mark Dawidziak, A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe

“The glow of the fireside poets failed to warm a world coping with the cold realities of a new century. Their light faded as we became less sure of comforting messages and more intrigued by Poe's troubling questions. 'We recognize Poe's modern view of the dark side of humanity,' said Jeffrey A. Savoye of the Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore. 'We don't expect sentimental moralizing. So we've embraced the very thing that made Poe distasteful in his own era.”
― Mark Dawidziak, A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe

“He wanted to be Byron, but guess what?" Pettit said. "Nobody reads Byron anymore. . . But everybody reads Poe. He Outlives Byron. He outpaces Byron. He outdoes Byron. He didn't get to be Byron, but he got to be Edgar Allan Poe. He's going to be the best-read American writer in the world, and you wish he could have known that.”
― Mark Dawidziak, A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe