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Edgar Allan Poe bol americký romantický básnik, prozaik, literárny teoretik a esejista.

✵ 19. január 1809 – 7. október 1849
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The Premature Burial
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Edgar Allan Poe citát: „Žijem pre všetky tie noci, ktoré si nebudem pamätať, s priateľmi, na ktorých nikdy nezabudnem.“

Edgar Allan Poe citáty a výroky

„Každého boha zabil čas, zabije aj vášho.“

prisudzovaný citát
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„Rana bičom pôsobí modrinu, ale rana jazykom drtí kosti.“

Marginálie
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„Rozhranie medzi životom a smrťou býva nepatrné, matné. Kto môže povedať, kde jeden končí a kde ďalší začína?“

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?
Predčasný pohreb, The Premature Burial - 1844
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„Kto sa aspoň sokrát nepristihol, ako sa dopúšťa zlého a hlúpeho skutku len a len preto, že vie, že nemá?“

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?
Čierny kocúr, The Black Cat - August 19, 1843
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„Sú isté námety, ktorých pútavosť je strhujúca, a predsa sú príliš hrozne pre beletristicke spracovanie.“

There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction.
Predčasný pohreb, The Premature Burial - 1844
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„Byť pochovaný zaživa patrí nesporne k tým najstrašnejším mukám, aké môžu byť udelené úbohým smrteľníkom.“

To be buried while alive is, beyond question, the most terrific of these extremes which has ever fallen to the lot of mere mortality.
Predčasný pohreb, The Premature Burial - 1844
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„Dlho som do tmy díval, v sluchách burácal mi príval prapodivných pochýb, predstáv – stál som ako v polosne…“

Zdroj: Prevzaté z knihy Havraní chlapci od spisovateľky Maggie Stiefvater

„Tí, ktorí snívajú cez deň, poznávajú mnohé z toho, čo uniká snivcom len nočným.“

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Eleonóra, Leonore - 1843
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Edgar Allan Poe: Citáty v angličtine

“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”

Letter http://www.eapoe.org/works/letters/p4801040.htm to George W. Eveleth, Jan. 4, 1848.

“From childhood's hour I have not been
As others were — I have not seen
As others saw —”

" 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

“All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.”

Edgar Allan Poe kniha A Dream Within a Dream

"A Dream Within a Dream" (1849).
Kontext: You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.

“Beauty is the sole legitimate province of the poem.”

Edgar Allan Poe kniha The Philosophy of Composition

"The Philosophy of Composition" (published 1846).

“Man is an animal that diddles, and there is no animal that diddles but man.”

" Diddling: Considered As One Of The Exact Sciences http://www.classicreader.com/read.php/sid.6/bookid.1390/"; first published as "Raising the Wind" in Saturday Courier (1843-10-14).

“Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.”

Edgar Allan Poe kniha The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether

"The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether" (1845)

“You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;”

Edgar Allan Poe kniha A Dream Within a Dream

"A Dream Within a Dream" (1849).
Kontext: You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.

“I was a child and she was a child,
In this kingdom by the sea,
But we loved with a love that was more than love —
I and my Annabel Lee —”

Edgar Allan Poe Annabel Lee

St. 2.
Annabel Lee (1849)
Kontext: I was a child and she was a child,
In this kingdom by the sea,
But we loved with a love that was more than love —
I and my Annabel Lee —
With a love that the wingèd seraphs of Heaven
Coveted her and me.

“It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden lived whom you may know
By the name of Annabel Lee; —”

Edgar Allan Poe Annabel Lee

St. 1.
Annabel Lee (1849)
Kontext: It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden lived whom you may know
By the name of Annabel Lee; —
And this maiden she lived with no other thought
Than to love and be loved by me.

“Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,”

Edgar Allan Poe The Raven

Stanza 1.
The Raven (1844)
Kontext: Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.

“And now have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the senses?”

Edgar Allan Poe kniha The Tell-Tale Heart

The Tell-Tale Heart (1843)
Kontext: And now have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the senses? -- now, I say, there came to my ears a low, dull, quick sound, such as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton. I knew that sound too. It was the beating of the old man's heart. It increased my fury, as the beating of a drum stimulates the soldier into courage.

“If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.”

Marginalia http://www.easylit.com/poe/comtext/prose/margin.shtml (November 1844)
Varianta: If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.

“Sleep. Those little slices of death. How I loathe them.”

Various forms of this quote are attributed to Poe, primarily by a title card in the movie A Nightmare on Elm Street 3, though there is no record of his having ever said it.
Misattributed

“Years of love have been forgot
In the hatred of a minute.”

To M——— (1829), reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“By a route obscure and lonely,
Haunted by ill angels only,”

"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.

“Thy Naiad airs have brought me home
To the glory that was Greece
And the grandeur that was Rome.”

"To Helen", st. 1-2 (1831).
Kontext: p>Helen, thy beauty is to me
Like those Nicean barks of yore,
That gently, o'er a perfumed sea,
The weary, wayworn wanderer bore
To his own native shore.On desperate seas long wont to roam,
Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face,
Thy Naiad airs have brought me home
To the glory that was Greece
And the grandeur that was Rome.</p

“Thy grace, thy more than beauty,
Shall be an endless theme of praise,
And love — a simple duty.”

" To Frances S. Osgood http://www.readbookonline.net/readOnLine/595/" (1845).
Kontext: Thou wouldst be loved? — then let thy heart
From its present pathway part not!
Being everything which now thou art,
Be nothing which thou art not.
So with the world thy gentle ways,
Thy grace, thy more than beauty,
Shall be an endless theme of praise,
And love — a simple duty.

“Thou wast that all to me, love,
For which my soul did pine —”

Edgar Allan Poe kniha To One in Paradise

"To One in Paradise", st. 1 (1834).
Kontext: Thou wast that all to me, love,
For which my soul did pine —
A green isle in the sea, love,
A fountain and a shrine,
All wreathed with fairy fruits and flowers,
And all the flowers were mine.

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