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Edgar Allan Poe
Dátum narodenia: 19. január 1809
Dátum úmrtia: 7. október 1849
Edgar Allan Poe bol americký romantický básnik, prozaik, literárny teoretik a esejista.
Diela
Citáty Edgar Allan Poe
„Každého boha zabil čas, zabije aj vášho.“
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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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„Byť pochovaný zaživa patrí nesporne k tým najstrašnejším mukám, aké môžu byť udelené úbohým smrteľníkom.“
— Edgar Allan Poe, kniha The Premature Burial
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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„Rozhranie medzi životom a smrťou býva nepatrné, matné. Kto môže povedať, kde jeden končí a kde ďalší začína?“
— Edgar Allan Poe, kniha The Premature Burial
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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„Smrť sa blíži a tieň, ktorý je jej predzvesťou mäkko obostiera moju dušu. Kráčajúc chmúrnym údolím prahnem po účasti mojich blížnych.“
William Wilson - 1839
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„Rana bičom pôsobí modrinu, ale rana jazykom drtí kosti.“
Marginálie
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„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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„Sú isté námety, ktorých pútavosť je strhujúca, a predsa sú príliš hrozne pre beletristicke spracovanie.“
— Edgar Allan Poe, kniha The Premature Burial
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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„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
„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.
„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.
„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).
„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.
„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
„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
