Edgar Allan Poe nejznámější citáty
Edgar Allan Poe: Citáty o lásce
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
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.“
Eleonora
Originál: (en) They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
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?
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.
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!
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]
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).
Kontext: From childhood's hour I have not been
As others were — I have not seen
As others saw — I could not bring
My passions from a common spring —
From the same source I have not taken
My sorrow — I could not awaken
My heart to joy at the same tone —
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)
“To observe attentively is to remember distinctly.”
"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).
“A dark unfathom'd tide
Of interminable pride —
A mystery, and a dream,
Should my early life seem.”
" Imitation http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/poe/17481", Tamerlane and Other Poems (1827).
“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"
According to John A. Joyce's much-criticized biography Edgar Allen Poe (1901), this was said by Poe to William Barton.
Disputed
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)
“Thus I pacified Psyche and kissed her,
And tempted her out of her gloom.”
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.”
"The Haunted Palace" (1839), st. 2.