 The words "Cellar Door" are written on the chalkboard in Karen  Pommeroys classroom. When Donnie asks about their meaning, she  replies that "This famous linguist once said that of all the phrases  in the English language, of all the endless combinations of words in  all of history, that Cellar Door is the most beautiful." In the  directors commentary Richard Kelly mistakenly attributes the phrase  to Edgar Allan Poe when it was actually J.R.R. Tolkien who in his  1955 essay "English and Welsh" said that "Most English