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
Edgar Allan Poe kniha Černý kocour
The Black Cat (1843)
" The Haunted Palace http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/poe/17478" (1839), st. 1.
Edgar Allan Poe kniha The Tell-Tale Heart
The Tell-Tale Heart (1843)
“The best things in life make you sweaty”
Attribution to Poe debunked by the Edgar Allan Poe museum https://www.poemuseum.org/blog/did-poe-really-say-that/. <br class="br">Earliest known source: a 2009 comment on a South Carolina duck hunting website http://www.scducks.com/forum/showpost.php?s=facea9e6926c3094744eadf268103181&p=513562&postcount=18. <br class="br">Misattributed
The Raven and Other Poems (1845), Preface
"To One In Paradise", st. 4; variants of this verse read "where thy dark eye glances".
" Sonnet. To Science http://library.thinkquest.org/11840/Poe/science.html", l. 12-14 (1829).
But — this little book must be true to its title. <br class="br"> Marginalia http://www.easylit.com/poe/comtext/prose/margin.shtml (November 1844)
Edgar Allan Poe kniha Černý kocour
The Black Cat (1843)
“Can it be fancied that Deity ever vindictively
Made in his image a mannikin merely to madden it?”
"The Rationale of Verse", III (1848); this is comparable to: ""What! out of senseless Nothing to provoke / A conscious Something to resent the yoke", FitzGerald, Omar Khayyám.
Edgar Allan Poe Annabel Lee
St. 5.
Annabel Lee (1849)
Edgar Allan Poe kniha The Murders in the Rue Morgue
"The Murders in the Rue Morgue" (1841).
" The Happiest Day http://www.internal.org/view_poem.phtml?poemID=190", st. 1 (1827).
Edgar Allan Poe kniha Černý kocour
The Black Cat (1843)
" Letter to Mr. B — http://www.lfchosting.com/eapoe/works/essays/blettera.htm", preface to Poems (1831).
" Letter to Mrs. Whitman http://www.lfchosting.com/eapoe/WORKS/letters/p4810181.htm" (1848-10-18).
“And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.”
Edgar Allan Poe kniha Maska červené smrti
"The Masque of the Red Death" (1842).
Edgar Allan Poe kniha The Philosophy of Composition
The Philosophy of Composition (published 1846).
Edgar Allan Poe kniha William Wilson
William Wilson (1839)
Edgar Allan Poe kniha William Wilson
William Wilson (1839)
Edgar Allan Poe kniha William Wilson
William Wilson (1839)
