Edgar Allan Poe cytaty

Źródło: Ligeja, przeł. Stanisław Wyrzykowski

Men usually grow base by degrees. From me, in an instant, all virtue dropped bodily as a mantle. (ang.)
William Wilson
Źródło: Opowieści nadzwyczajne tom II, tłum. Bolesław Leśmian, wyd. Tow. Akc. S. Orgelbranda S-ów, 1913.

I have great faith in fools – self-confidence my friends will call it. (ang.)
Źródło: Marginalia w: The works of Edgar Allan Poe http://books.google.pl/books?id=an1KAAAAYAAJ, tom 3, Widdleton, 1849, s. 525.

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. (ang.)
Źródło: Eleonora

If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered. (ang.)
Źródło: Marginalia w: The works of Edgar Allan Poe http://books.google.pl/books?id=an1KAAAAYAAJ, tom 3, Widdleton, 1849, s. 483.

Quoth the Raven, „Nevermore!”
Inna wersja: Rzekł kruk na to: „Nigdy już!” (tłum. Zenon Przesmycki)
Źródło: Kruk, 1845

William Wilson
Źródło: Opowieści nadzwyczajne tom II, tłum. Bolesław Leśmian, wyd. Tow. Akc. S. Orgelbranda S-ów, 1913.

Źródło: Milczenie

Źródło: Wielka księga mądrości, wybór Jacek i Tomasz Ilga

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

" Alone http://gothlupin.tripod.com/valone.html", l. 1-8 (written 1829, published 1875).
Kontekst: 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

"A Dream Within a Dream" (1849).
Kontekst: 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.

"The Philosophy of Composition" (published 1846).

" 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).

Al Aaraaf (1829).

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

"A Dream Within a Dream" (1849).
Kontekst: 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.

St. 2.
Annabel Lee (1849)
Kontekst: 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.

St. 1.
Annabel Lee (1849)
Kontekst: 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.

Stanza 1.
The Raven (1844)
Kontekst: 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.

The Tell-Tale Heart (1843)
Kontekst: 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.

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

The Black Cat (1843)

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

Stanza 18.
The Raven (1844)

"Hop-Frog" (1850).

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

"Tamerlane", l. 177 (1827).

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

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?
The Black Cat (1843)

Źródło: báseň A Dream Within a Dream

"Dreamland", st. 1 (1845).
Kontekst: 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.

"To Helen", st. 1-2 (1831).
Kontekst: 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

"Berenice".

" To Frances S. Osgood http://www.readbookonline.net/readOnLine/595/" (1845).
Kontekst: 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.

"To One in Paradise", st. 1 (1834).
Kontekst: 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.