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Edgar Allan Poe amerikai költő, novellista, szerkesztő és kritikus volt, a romantika korának egyik legfontosabb szerzője. A leginkább misztikus, hátborzongató történetei révén ismert Poe az első amerikai novellisták egyike volt, emellett őt tartják a detektívregény „feltalálójának” is. Ezen kívül a korban újnak számító sci-fi területén is alkotott. Az első közismert amerikai író volt, aki pusztán az írásból akart megélni; emiatt szinte egész életében anyagi gondokkal küzdött.Edgar Poe néven született a massachusettsi Bostonban. Szülei halála után a richmondi John és Frances Allan nevelte, bár hivatalosan sosem fogadták örökbe. A Virginiai Egyetemen töltött egy év és a katonai pályára tett kísérlet után Poe és az Allan család eltávolodott egymástól. Írói pályája szerényen kezdődött: a Tamerlane and Other Poems című kötete 1827-ben név nélkül, „egy bostoni” aláírással jelent meg.

Poe ezután a próza felé fordult. Az elkövetkező néhány évben irodalmi újságok és folyóiratok munkatársa volt, és egyéni stílusú kritikáiról vált ismertté. Munkája miatt gyakran ingázott Baltimore, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania és New York között. 1835-ben feleségül vette unokatestvérét, az akkor 13 éves Virginia Eliza Clemmet. 1845 januárjában jelent meg A holló című verse, ami azonnali sikert aratott. 1847-ben felesége tuberkulózisban meghalt. Poe The Penn címen saját lap indítását tervezte, de még azelőtt meghalt, hogy az első szám megjelenhetett volna. Poe 1849. október 7-én, Baltimore-ban halt meg. Halálának pontos oka még ma is ismeretlen. Többen gyanakodtak idült alkoholizmusra, agyrázkódásra, kolerára, kábítószerekre, szívrohamra, veszettségre, tuberkulózisra, de öngyilkosságra is.Poe munkássága az egész világirodalomra hatással volt, de közvetetten olyan tudományokat is befolyásolt, mint a kozmológia és a kriptográfia. Emellett Poe és művei a kortárs irodalomban, zenében és filmekben is gyakran felbukkannak. Több házban, amelyben élt, ma múzeum található. Wikipedia  

✵ 19. január 1809 – 7. október 1849
Edgar Allan Poe fénykép
Edgar Allan Poe: 137 idézet12 Kedvelés

Edgar Allan Poe híres idézetei

„Megőrültem, hosszú időközönként szörnyű józansággal.”

Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe idézetek

„Edgar Allan Poe összes költeményei. Franklin Könyvkiadó.”

Edgar Allan Poe

Évszám nélkül.
Felhasznált frorrás

„Nos, az emberi ismeretek fejlődésének története szinte szakadatlanul bizonyítja, hogy a legtöbb felfedezést, és a legértékesebbeket is, éppen a mellékes, esetleges vagy véletlen eredményének köszönhetjük.”

Edgar Allan Poe

Forrás nélküli idézetek

„Nem a tudásban van a boldogság, hanem a tudás megszerzésében.”

Edgar Allan Poe

Forrás nélküli idézetek

„Emléked ép úgy leng felém,
Mint távol és mesés sziget
Kavargó tenger közepén,
Hol reng az óceán tömény
Dühvel, de fönt a kék eget
Fény űli folyton, tiszta fény
A mosolygó sziget felett.”

Edgar Allan Poe

Kardos László
Idézetek verseiből

„Állok viharzó part előtt,
A tenger lihegve bőg.
Kezemben emlékek, romok,
Arany fövény, arany homok. -
Nézem, hogy hullanak ezek
A könnyű, semmi porszemek
És könnyezek - és könnyezek!
Ó Istenem! bárhogy fogom,
A porba hull lágy homlokom!
Ó Istenem! nem menekül
Egy szem se a vizek elül?
Hát minden-minden e világon
Álomba ködlő furcsa álom?”

Edgar Allan Poe

Kosztolányi Dezső
Idézetek verseiből

Edgar Allan Poe: Idézetek angolul

“During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country, and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher.”

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Edgar Allan Poe könyv The Fall of the House of Usher

"The Fall of the House of Usher" (1839).

“I would define, in brief, the Poetry of words as the Rhythmical Creation of Beauty. Its sole arbiter is taste. With the intellect or with the conscience, it has only collateral relations. Unless incidentally, it has no concern whatever either with duty or with truth.”

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Edgar Allan Poe

The Poetic Principle (1850)

“Keeping time, time, time,
In a sort of Runic rhyme,
To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells
From the bells, bells, bells, bells,
Bells, bells, bells.”

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Edgar Allan Poe könyv The Bells

"The Bells", st. 1 (1849).

“Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December;
And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.”

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Edgar Allan Poe The Raven

Stanza 2.
The Raven (1844)

“The skies they were ashen and sober;
The leaves they were crisped and sere —
The leaves they were withering and sere;
It was night in the lonesome October
Of my most immemorial year.”

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Edgar Allan Poe Ulalume

St. 1.
Ulalume (1847)

“I have sometimes amused myself by endeavouring to fancy what would be the fate of an individual gifted, or rather accursed, with an intellect very far superior to that of his race. Of course he would be conscious of his superiority; nor could he (if otherwise constituted as man is) help manifesting his consciousness. Thus he would make himself enemies at all points. And since his opinions and speculations would widely differ from those of all mankind — that he would be considered a madman is evident. How horribly painful such a condition! Hell could invent no greater torture than that of being charged with abnormal weakness on account of being abnormally strong.In like manner, nothing can be clearer than that a very generous spirit — truly feeling what all merely profess — must inevitably find itself misconceived in every direction — its motives misinterpreted. Just as extremeness of intelligence would be thought fatuity, so excess of chivalry could not fail of being looked upon as meanness in the last degree — and so on with other virtues. This subject is a painful one indeed. That individuals have so soared above the plane of their race is scarcely to be questioned; but, in looking back through history for traces of their existence, we should pass over all the biographies of the "good and the great," while we search carefully the slight records of wretches who died in prison, in Bedlam, or upon the gallows.”

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Edgar Allan Poe

Marginalia http://www.easylit.com/poe/comtext/prose/margin.shtml (November 1844)

“I need scarcely observe that a poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul. The value of the poem is in the ratio of this elevating excitement. But all excitements are, through a psychal necessity, transient.”

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Edgar Allan Poe

The Poetic Principle (1850)
Kontextus: I hold that a long poem does not exist. I maintain that the phrase, "a long poem," is simply a flat contradiction in terms.
I need scarcely observe that a poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul. The value of the poem is in the ratio of this elevating excitement. But all excitements are, through a psychal necessity, transient. That degree of excitement which would entitle a poem to be so called at all, cannot be sustained throughout a composition of any great length.

“The death then of a beautiful woman is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world, and equally is it beyond doubt that the lips best suited for such topic are those of a bereaved lover.”

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Edgar Allan Poe könyv The Philosophy of Composition

"The Philosophy of Composition" (published 1846).

“Gaily bedight,
A gallant knight,
In sunshine and in shadow,
Had journeyed long,
Singing a song,
In search of Eldorado.”

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Edgar Allan Poe Eldorado

"Eldorado", st. 1 (1849).

“Lo! Death has reared himself a throne
In a strange city lying alone
Far down within the dim West,
Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best
Have gone to their eternal rest.”

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Edgar Allan Poe The City in the Sea

St. 1.
The City in the Sea (1831)

“Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing,
Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.”

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Edgar Allan Poe The Raven

Stanza 5.
The Raven (1844)

“Vastness! and Age! and Memories of Eld!
Silence! and Desolation! and dim Night!
I feel ye now — I feel ye in your strength.”

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Edgar Allan Poe

" The Coliseum http://infomotions.com/etexts/literature/american/1800-1899/poe-coliseum-674.txt", st. 2 (1833).

“"Prophet!" said I, "thing of evil! — prophet still, if bird or devil!"”

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Edgar Allan Poe The Raven

Stanza 15.
The Raven (1844)

“A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this — that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made, not to understand, but to feel, as crime.”

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Marginalia http://www.easylit.com/poe/comtext/prose/margin.shtml (November 1844)

“In her sepulcher there by the sea —
In her tomb by the sounding sea.”

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Edgar Allan Poe Annabel Lee

St. 6.
Annabel Lee (1849)

“Depend upon it, after all, Thomas, Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man. For my own part, there is no seducing me from the path.”

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Edgar Allan Poe

" Letter to Frederick W. Thomas http://www.eapoe.org/works/letters/p4902140.htm" (1849-02-14).

“If I could dwell
Where Israfel
Hath dwelt, and he where I,
He might not sing so wildly well
A mortal melody,
While a bolder note than this might swell
From my lyre within the sky.”

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"Israfel", st. 8 (1831).

“While the angels, all pallid and wan,
Uprising, unveiling, affirm
That the play is the tragedy, "Man",
And its hero the Conqueror Worm.”

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Edgar Allan Poe könyv The Conqueror Worm

"The Conqueror Worm" (1843), st. 5.

“Sorrow for the lost Lenore —
For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore —
Nameless here for evermore.”

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Edgar Allan Poe The Raven

Stanza 2.
The Raven (1844)

“For one instant the party upon the stairs remained motionless, through extremity of terror and of awe. In the next, a dozen stout arms were toiling at the wall. It fell bodily. The corpse, already greatly decayed and clotted with gore, stood erect before the eyes of the spectators. Upon its head, with red extended mouth and solitary eye of fire, sat the hideous beast whose craft had seduced me into murder, and whose informing voice had consigned me to the hangman. I had walled the monster up within the tomb!”

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Edgar Allan Poe könyv The Black Cat

The Black Cat (1843)

“I have great faith in fools — self-confidence my friends will call it.”

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Edgar Allan Poe

Marginalia http://www.easylit.com/poe/comtext/prose/margin.shtml (November 1844)

“There neither exists nor can exist any work more thoroughly dignified — more supremely noble than this very poem — this poem per se — this poem which is a poem and nothing more — this poem written solely for the poem's sake.”

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Edgar Allan Poe

The Poetic Principle (1850)

“Yes, Heaven is thine; but this
Is a world of sweets and sours;
Our flowers are merely—flowers.”

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Edgar Allan Poe

"Israfel", st. 7 (1831).

“And the cloud that took the form
(When the rest of Heaven was blue)
Of a demon in my view.”

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Edgar Allan Poe Alone

"Alone", l. 20-22.

“While, like a ghastly rapid river,
Through the pale door
A hideous throng rush out forever
And laugh — but smile no more.”

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Edgar Allan Poe The Haunted Palace

"The Haunted Palace" (1839), st. 5.

“That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.”

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Edgar Allan Poe

Marginalia http://www.easylit.com/poe/comtext/prose/margin.shtml (November 1844)

“So blend the turrets and shadows there
That all seem pendulous in air,
While from a proud tower in the town
Death looks gigantically down.”

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Edgar Allan Poe The City in the Sea

St. 2.
The City in the Sea (1831)

“Perched upon a bust of Pallas, just above my chamber door,—
Perched, and sat, and nothing more.”

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Edgar Allan Poe The Raven

Stanza 7.
The Raven (1844)

“The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could; but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge. You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that I gave utterance to a threat. At length I would be avenged; this was a point definitely settled — but the very definitiveness with which it was resolved precluded the idea of risk. I must not only punish, but punish with impunity. A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong.”

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Edgar Allan Poe könyv The Cask of Amontillado

"The Cask of Amontillado" (1846).

“Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart — one of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give direction to the character of man. 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? Have we not a perpetual inclination, in the teeth of our best judgement, to violate that which is Law, merely because we understand it to be such?”

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Edgar Allan Poe könyv The Black Cat

The Black Cat (1843)