1. Idézetek
  2. Szerzők
  3. Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe idézet
oldal 4

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

“It is impossible to describe, or to imagine, the deep, the blissful sense of relief which the absence of the detested creature occasioned in my bosom. It did not make its appearance during the night — and thus for one night at least, since its introduction into the house, I soundly and tranquilly slept; aye, slept even with the burden of murder upon my soul!”

Help us translate this quote

Edgar Allan Poe könyv The Black Cat

The Black Cat (1843)

“In the greenest of our valleys
By good angels tenanted,
Once a fair and stately palace —
Radiant palace — reared its head.”

Help us translate this quote

Edgar Allan Poe

" The Haunted Palace http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/poe/17478" (1839), st. 1.

“Here once, through an alley Titanic,
Of cypress, I roamed with my Soul —
Of cypress, with Psyche, my Soul.”

Help us translate this quote

Edgar Allan Poe Ulalume

St. 2.
Ulalume (1847)

“"Villains!" I shrieked, "dissemble no more! I admit the deed! — tear up the planks! — here, here! — it is the beating of his hideous heart!"”

Help us translate this quote

Edgar Allan Poe könyv The Tell-Tale Heart

The Tell-Tale Heart (1843)

“The best things in life make you sweaty”

Help us translate this quote

Edgar Allan Poe

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&amp;p=513562&amp;postcount=18. <br class="br">Misattributed

“I grew, day by day, more moody, more irritable, more regardless of the feelings of others. I suffered myself to use intemperate language to my wife. At length, I even offered her personal violence.”

Help us translate this quote

Edgar Allan Poe könyv The Black Cat

The Black Cat (1843)

“Hear the mellow wedding bells
Golden bells!
What a world of happiness their harmony foretells
Through the balmy air of night
How they ring out their delight!”

Help us translate this quote

Edgar Allan Poe könyv The Bells

"The Bells", st. 2 (1849).

“With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.”

Help us translate this quote

Edgar Allan Poe

The Raven and Other Poems (1845), Preface

“And all my days are trances,
And all my nightly dreams
Are where thy grey eye glances,
And where thy footstep gleams —
In what ethereal dances,
By what eternal streams.”

Help us translate this quote

Edgar Allan Poe

"To One In Paradise", st. 4; variants of this verse read "where thy dark eye glances".

“Hast thou not torn the Naiad from her flood,
The Elfin from the green grass, and from me
The summer dream beneath the tamarind tree?”

Help us translate this quote

Edgar Allan Poe

&quot; Sonnet. To Science http://library.thinkquest.org/11840/Poe/science.html&quot;, l. 12-14 (1829).

“If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize at one effort the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human sentiment, the opportunity is his own — the road to immortal renown lies straight, open, and unencumbered before him. All that he has to do is to write and publish a very little book. Its title should be simple — a few plain words — "My Heart Laid Bare."”

Help us translate this quote

Edgar Allan Poe

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)

“For the most wild, yet most homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief. Mad indeed would I be to expect it, in a case where my very senses reject their own evidence. Yet, mad am I not — and very surely do I not dream. But to-morrow I die, and to-day I would unburthen my soul.”

Help us translate this quote

Edgar Allan Poe könyv The Black Cat

The Black Cat (1843)

“Over the Mountains
Of the Moon,
Down the Valley of the Shadow,
Ride, boldly ride,"
The shade replied, —
"If you seek for Eldorado!”

Help us translate this quote

Edgar Allan Poe Eldorado

"Eldorado", st. 4.

“Can it be fancied that Deity ever vindictively
Made in his image a mannikin merely to madden it?”

Help us translate this quote

Edgar Allan Poe

"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.

“But our love it was stronger by far than the love
Of those who were older than we —
Of many far wiser than we —
And neither the angels in Heaven above
Nor the demons down under the sea
Can ever dissever my soul from the soul
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee”

Help us translate this quote

Edgar Allan Poe Annabel Lee

St. 5.
Annabel Lee (1849)

“Had the routine of our life at this place been known to the world, we should have been regarded as madmen —; although, perhaps, as madmen of a harmless nature.”

Help us translate this quote

Edgar Allan Poe könyv The Murders in the Rue Morgue

"The Murders in the Rue Morgue" (1841).

“The happiest day — the happiest hour
My sear'd and blighted heart hath known,
The highest hope of pride and power,
I feel hath flown.”

Help us translate this quote

Edgar Allan Poe

&quot; The Happiest Day http://www.internal.org/view_poem.phtml?poemID=190&quot;, st. 1 (1827).

“Beneath the pressure of torments such as these, the feeble remnant of the good within me succumbed. Evil thoughts became my sole intimates — the darkest and most evil of thoughts. The moodiness of my usual temper increased to hatred of all things and of all mankind; while, from the sudden, frequent, and ungovernable outbursts of a fury to which I now blindly abandoned myself, my uncomplaining wife, alas! was the most usual and the most patient of sufferers.”

Help us translate this quote

Edgar Allan Poe könyv The Black Cat

The Black Cat (1843)

“It is with literature as with law or empire — an established name is an estate in tenure, or a throne in possession.”

Help us translate this quote

Edgar Allan Poe

&quot; Letter to Mr. B — http://www.lfchosting.com/eapoe/works/essays/blettera.htm&quot;, preface to Poems (1831).

“O God! Can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?”

Help us translate this quote

Edgar Allan Poe

"A Dream Within A Dream" (1849).

“"Doubtless," said I, "what it utters is its only stock and store,
Caught from some unhappy master whom unmerciful Disaster
Followed fast and followed faster till his songs one burden bore.”

Help us translate this quote

Edgar Allan Poe The Raven

Stanza 11.
The Raven (1844)

“There is no oath which seems to me so sacred as that sworn by the all-divine love I bear you. — By this love, then, and by the God who reigns in Heaven, I swear to you that my soul is incapable of dishonor — that, with the exception of occasional follies and excesses which I bitterly lament, but to which I have been driven by intolerable sorrow, and which are hourly committed by others without attracting any notice whatever — I can call to mind no act of my life which would bring a blush to my cheek — or to yours. If I have erred at all, in this regard, it has been on the side of what the world would call a Quixotic sense of the honorable — of the chivalrous.”

Help us translate this quote

Edgar Allan Poe

&quot; Letter to Mrs. Whitman http://www.lfchosting.com/eapoe/WORKS/letters/p4810181.htm&quot; (1848-10-18).

“And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.”

Help us translate this quote

Edgar Allan Poe könyv The Masque of the Red Death

"The Masque of the Red Death" (1842).

“The object, Truth, or the satisfaction of the intellect, and the object, Passion, or the excitement of the heart, are, although attainable, to a certain extent, in poetry, far more readily attainable in prose.”

Help us translate this quote

Edgar Allan Poe könyv The Philosophy of Composition

The Philosophy of Composition (published 1846).

“A poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul.”

Help us translate this quote

Edgar Allan Poe

The Poetic Principle (1850)

“You have conquered, and I yield. Yet, henceforward art thou also dead—dead to the World, to Heaven and to Hope! In me didst thou exist—and, in my death, see by this image, which is thine own, how utterly thou hast murdered thyself.”

Help us translate this quote

Edgar Allan Poe könyv William Wilson

William Wilson (1839)

“Thus it appeared, I say, but was not. It was my antagonist—it was Wilson, who then stood before me in the agonies of his dissolution. His mask and cloak lay, where he had thrown them, upon the floor. Not a thread in all his raiment—not a line in all the marked and singular lineaments of his face which was not, even in the most absolute identity, mine own!”

Help us translate this quote

Edgar Allan Poe könyv William Wilson

William Wilson (1839)

“A large mirror,—so at first it seemed to me in my confusion—now stood where none had been perceptible before; and, as I stepped up to it in extremity of terror, mine own image, but with features all pale and dabbled in blood, advanced to meet me with a feeble and tottering gait.”

Help us translate this quote

Edgar Allan Poe könyv William Wilson

William Wilson (1839)