A Quote by John Green

If I'm too old to be Emo, how do you account for the very Emo and very old Edgar Allan Poe? Checkmate!

John Green

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John Green
American - Author
Born: August 24, 1977

Even though the hero of emo is Morrissey, the great song of emo is 'Love Will Tear Us Apart.' An emo soundtrack would introduce Joy Division's music to a whole new generation.

Tony Wilson

I was warped early by Ray Bradbury and Edgar Allan Poe. I was very fond of Franz Kafka.

Margaret Atwood

Edgar Allan Poe, I think he's a brilliant poet. I was actually given a copy of his work when I was, like, 8 years old that was my grandfather's, and I still carry it around with me.

Dove Cameron

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

The sky was the color of Edgar Allan Poe's pajamas.

Tom Robbins

I'm not emo. I've never been emo.

Trippie Redd

Detective fiction could not have existed without Edgar Allan Poe.

Giles Foden

Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allan Poe.

John Lennon

My favorite poem ever was 'Annabel Lee' by Edgar Allan Poe.

Ross Lynch

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

Andy Richter

Edgar Allan Poe, an earlier UVA student, once complained in a letter that his stepfather spoke to him as if Poe were one of the black slaves; some of the students at UVA surely felt the same about being told what to do by faculty.

Matthew Pearl

I've been influenced by poets as diverse as Dylan Thomas, Lewis Carroll, and Edgar Allan Poe.

Jack Prelutsky

Edgar Allan Poe is amazing because he was so dark. He's from Baltimore and so cynical that you can feel it when you're reading, it feels so honest.

Goldlink

My musical style changes with every song that I make. I jokingly referred to it one time as 'emo thug', and I think that kind of stands because it's got equal parts of the aggressive confidence of the Dre beats I grew up listening to, and the emotion of like... emo music!