“Man is an animal that diddles, and there is no animal that diddles but man.”
Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) American author, poet, editor and literary critic
" 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).
“Beauty is the sole legitimate province of the poem.”
Edgar Allan Poe book The Philosophy of Composition
"The Philosophy of Composition" (published 1846).
“All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.”
Edgar Allan Poe book A Dream Within a Dream
"A Dream Within a Dream" (1849).
Context: 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.
“From childhood's hour I have not been
As others were — I have not seen
As others saw —”
Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) American author, poet, editor and literary critic
" Alone http://gothlupin.tripod.com/valone.html", l. 1-8 (written 1829, published 1875). <br class="br">Context: 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
“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) American author, poet, editor and literary critic
Letter http://www.eapoe.org/works/letters/p4801040.htm to George W. Eveleth, Jan. 4, 1848.
“I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.”
Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) American author, poet, editor and literary critic
“And so being young and dipped in folly, I fell in love with melancholy.”
Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) American author, poet, editor and literary critic
„Nem a tudásban van a boldogság, hanem a tudás megszerzésében.”
Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)
Forrás nélküli idézetek
„Edgar Allan Poe összes költeményei. Franklin Könyvkiadó.”
Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)
Évszám nélkül.
Felhasznált frorrás
Max Planck (1858–1947) German theoretical physicist
Letter to Robert W. Wood (October 7, 1931) in Archive for the History of Quantum Physics, Microfilm 66, 5, as cited in Thomas S. Kuhn, Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity, 1894–1912 (1978) pp. 132, 288. Translation of the entire letter, which is follow above is in Armin Hermann, Frühgeschiche der Quantentheorie (1899–1913) Mosbach/Baden: Physik Verlag (1969), transl. Claude W. Nash, p. 23 of the translation; and also in M. S. Longair,Theoretical Concepts in Physics(Cambridge and NewYork: Cambridge University Press, 1984), ch. 6–12, p. 222. All as quoted/cited by Clayton A. Gearhart, "Planck, the Quantum, and the Historians" http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.613.4262&rep=rep1&type=pdf, Physics in Perspective, 4 (2002) 170-215.
