With enough patience, the suspect will often interrogate himself.
The heart is a symbol or it is nothing. Now take away the symbol and what do you have? It’s a fistful of muscle of no more aesthetic interest than a bladder. Now, to remove a man’s heart is to traffic in symbol. And who better equipped for such labor than a poet?[to Landor]
You of all people know that the people we lost are always with us.[to Landor]
The dead haunt us because we love them too little.
Man will do most anything to cheat death.[to Landor]
I don’t get around to poetry much.[Augustus Landor]Why should you? You’re an American.[Edgar Allan Poe]And you?[Augustus Landor]An artist. That is to say, without country.[Edgar Allan Poe]
I do consider death to be poetry’s most exalted theme.[Lea Marquis: You do enjoy talking about God and death, don’t you?]
Communicating with the dead, that’s not normal. But murder, destroying innocent lives, that’s inhuman.[to Daniel Marquis]
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Aren’t all families guilty of something?[to Landor]
