Edgar Allan Poe nejznámější citáty
Edgar Allan Poe: Citáty o lásce
Edgar Allan Poe kniha Černý kocour
Černý kocour
Originál: (en) To those who have cherished an affection for a faithful and sagacious dog, I need hardly be at the trouble of explaining the nature or the intensity of the gratification thus derivable. There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.
Edgar Allan Poe: Citáty o životě
Edgar Allan Poe kniha Předčasný pohřeb
Předčasný pohřeb
Originál: (en) The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
Edgar Allan Poe citáty a výroky
„Všechno, co vidíme nebo soudíme, je pouhý sen uvnitř snu.“
Zdroj: [Russell, Peter, Peter Russell, Od vědy k Bohu: fyzikova cesta do mystéria vědomí, From science to God, Viktor Horák, 1, Dybbuk, Praha, 2008, 108, 39, 978-80-86862-68-2]
„Ti, kdo sní ve dne, poznávají mnohé z toho, co uniká snivcům pouze nočním.“
Edgar Allan Poe kniha Eleonora
Eleonora
Originál: (en) They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
„Nikdo mě nebude dráždit beztrestně.“
Nemo me impune lacessit.
Edgar Allan Poe kniha Sud vína amontilladského
Vojenské heslo
Edgar Allan Poe kniha Černý kocour
Černý kocour
Originál: (en) Who has not, a hundred times, found himself committing a vile or a stupid action, for no other reason than because he knows he should not?
Edgar Allan Poe kniha Předčasný pohřeb
Předčasný pohřeb
Originál: (en) To be buried while alive is, beyond question, the most terrific of these extremes which has ever fallen to the lot of mere mortality.
Edgar Allan Poe kniha Jáma a kyvadlo
Jáma a kyvadlo
Originál: (en) Down—steadily down it crept. I took a frenzied pleasure in contrasting its downward with its lateral velocity. To the right—to the left—far and wide—with the shriek of a damned spirit; to my heart with the stealthy pace of the tiger! I alternately laughed and howled as the one or the other idea grew predominant. Down—certainly, relentlessly down!
Edgar Allan Poe kniha Záhada Marie Rogêtové
Záhada Marie Rogêtové
Originál: (en) Nothing is more vague than impressions of individual identity. Each man recognizes his neighbor, yet there are few instances in which any one is prepared to give a reason for his recognition.
„Má hrůza není z Německa, ale z duše …“
Zdroj: [Škvorecký, Josef, Josef Škvorecký, Josef Škvorecký, Nápady čtenáře detektivek, 1, Praha, Československý spisovatel, 1965, 163, 1. edgar allan poe, neboli zrod detektivky z poezie, 11, Otázky a názory, 55]
Edgar Allan Poe kniha Předčasný pohřeb
Předčasný pohřeb
Originál: (en) There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction.
Edgar Allan Poe: Citáty anglicky
"Dreamland", st. 1 (1845).
Kontext: By a route obscure and lonely,
Haunted by ill angels only,
Where an Eidolon, named NIGHT,
On a black throne reigns upright,
I have reached these lands but newly
From an ultimate dim Thule —
From a wild weird clime that lieth, sublime,
Out of SPACE — out of TIME.
“I could not awaken
My heart to joy at the same tone —
And all I lov'd — I lov'd alone —”
" Alone http://gothlupin.tripod.com/valone.html", l. 1-8 (written 1829, published 1875). <br class="br">Kontext: From childhood's hour I have not been<br>As others were — I have not seen<br>As others saw — I could not bring<br>My passions from a common spring —<br>From the same source I have not taken<br>My sorrow — I could not awaken<br>My heart to joy at the same tone —<br>And all I lov'd — I lov'd alone
Marginalia http://www.easylit.com/poe/comtext/prose/margin.shtml (November 1844)
Poe stating his arguments that Maelzel's Chess-Player was a hoax. Maelzel's Chess-Player http://www.eapoe.org/works/essays/maelzel.htm, Southern Literary Journal (April 1836).
Marginalia http://www.easylit.com/poe/comtext/prose/margin.shtml (November 1844)
Edgar Allan Poe kniha The Angel of the Odd
"The Angel of the Odd" (1850).
Edgar Allan Poe kniha The Tell-Tale Heart
The Tell-Tale Heart (1843)
“To observe attentively is to remember distinctly.”
Edgar Allan Poe kniha The Murders in the Rue Morgue
"The Murders in the Rue Morgue" (1841).
“They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
" Eleonora http://www.classicreader.com/read.php/sid.6/bookid.9/" (1841).
Edgar Allan Poe The Raven
Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore."
Stanza 8.
The Raven (1844)
Edgar Allan Poe The City in the Sea
St. 5.
The City in the Sea (1831)
“A dark unfathom'd tide
Of interminable pride —
A mystery, and a dream,
Should my early life seem.”
Edgar Allan Poe kniha Tamerlane and Other Poems
" Imitation http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/poe/17481", Tamerlane and Other Poems (1827).
Edgar Allan Poe kniha The Tell-Tale Heart
The Tell-Tale Heart (1843)
Edgar Allan Poe kniha Předčasný pohřeb
"The Premature Burial" (1844).
“How many good books suffer neglect through the inefficiency of their beginnings!”
Marginalia http://www.easylit.com/poe/comtext/prose/margin.shtml (November 1844)
"The Angel Of The Odd: An Extravaganza".
“All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of chicanery, fear, greed, imagination and poetry!”
Sometimes quoted as "All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination and poetry" <br class="br">According to John A. Joyce's much-criticized biography Edgar Allen Poe (1901), this was said by Poe to William Barton. <br class="br">Disputed <br class="br">Zdroj: Google Books link https://books.google.com/books?id=_cdEAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=John+Alexander+Joyce+poe&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CBwQ6AEwAGoVChMIsuLtsoXUyAIVVSqICh2cqAI_#v=onepage&q=%22chicanery%2C%20fear%22&f=false
Marginalia http://www.easylit.com/poe/comtext/prose/margin.shtml (November 1844)
Edgar Allan Poe kniha The Tell-Tale Heart
The Tell-Tale Heart (1843)
Edgar Allan Poe The Raven
Stanza 17.
The Raven (1844)
“Thus I pacified Psyche and kissed her,
And tempted her out of her gloom.”
Edgar Allan Poe Ulalume
St. 8.
Ulalume (1847)
" A Few Words on Secret Writing http://www.lfchosting.com/eapoe/works/essays/fwsw0741.htm" in Graham's Magazine (July 1841).
“This—all this—was in the olden
Time long ago.”
Edgar Allan Poe The Haunted Palace
"The Haunted Palace" (1839), st. 2.
