Quotes by Norman Lock, The Port-Wine Stain

“While I knew him, he made me see--Poe did; made me understand that, unlike a bodily organ, the soul desires, even wills, its own continuance.It can be said to be the seat of will and desire and, ev...”

“I hammered on the Poes' front door like Alaric on the gates of Rome. Poe said that a gaudy figure of speech was a silk cravat around a dirty neck. He didn't say whether the truth lay in the plain t...”

“Forgive me,' Poe repeated earnestly.I nodded coldly. I was not above acting like a child; I was hardly more tha”