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Edgar Allan PoeThe Power of Words
Edgar Allan PoeThe System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether
Edgar Allan PoeA Filosofia da Composição
Edgar Allan PoeEdgar Allan Poe Frases famosas
“A ciência não averiguou ainda se a loucura é ou não a mais sublime das inteligências.”
Variante: A ciência ainda não nos provou se a loucura é ou não o mais sublime da inteligência.
“Não há beleza rara sem algo de estranho nas proporções.”
There is no exquisite beauty [...] without some strangeness in the proportion.
Ligeia (1838)
Citações de vida de Edgar Allan Poe
— Edgar Allan Poe, livro Marginalia
Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
Marginalia, XCIX in: The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe: The literati - Página 528 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=VDxbAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA528, Edgar Allan Poe, Rufus Wilmot Griswold, Nathaniel Parker Willis - Redfield, 1850
Edgar Allan Poe frases e citações
“Para ser feliz, até certo ponto, devemos ter sofrido na mesma proporção.”
Historias extraordinarias - Página 160 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=Cjb34i2SzokC&pg=PA160, Edgar Allan Poe, tradução de Clarice Lispector - Ediouro Publicações, 2005, ISBN 8500015985, 9788500015984 - 179 páginas
“Quando um louco parece completamente sensato, já é o momento de pôr-lhe a camisa de força.”
— Edgar Allan Poe, livro The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether
When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a strait- jacket.
The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether (1844)
no poem will be so great, so noble, so truly worthy of the name of a poem, as that which has been written solely for the pleasure of writing a poem.
citado em "Current opinion": Volume 54, Current Literature Pub. Co., 1913
Atribuídos
“Os cabelos brancos são arquivos do passado.”
his gray hairs are records of the past
MS. Found in a Bottle (1833)
Man doth not yield him to the angels, nor unto death utterly, save only through the weakness of his feeble will.
Ligeia (1838)
“Todas as obras de arte devem começar pelo final.”
— Edgar Allan Poe, livro A Filosofia da Composição
at the end, where all works of art should begin
The Philosophy of Composition (1846)
“Quem sonha de dia tem consciência de muitas coisas que escapam a quem sonha só de noite.”
— Edgar Allan Poe, livro Eleonora
They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Eleonora (1842)
Variante: Aqueles que sonham acordados têm consciência de mil coisas que escapam aos que apenas sonham adormecidos.
It is safe to wager that every idea that is public property, every accepted convention, is a bit of stupidity, for it has suited the majority
Maximes et Pensees, n, 42 in :Tales and Sketches: 1843-1849 - Página 995, Edgar Allan Poe, Thomas Ollive Mabbott, Eleanor D. Kewer - 2000
Atribuídos
“Todas as coisas criadas são pensamentos de Deus.”
— Edgar Allan Poe, livro Tales
All created things are but the thoughts of God.
Tales (Poe)/Mesmeric Revelation
“Para sermos felizes até certo ponto é preciso que tenhamos sofrido até o mesmo ponto.”
Variante: Para se ser feliz até um certo ponto é preciso ter-se sofrido até esse mesmo ponto.
“Não é na ciência que está a felicidade, mas na aquisição da ciência.”
— Edgar Allan Poe, livro The Power of Words
not in knowledge is happiness, but in the acquisition of knowledge
The Power of Words
“Senhor, ajude minha pobre alma.”
"Lord help my poor soul."
Edgar Allan Poe em suas últimas palavras
Atribuídos
Edgar Allan Poe: Frases em inglês
“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).
Contexto: 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
“All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.”
— Edgar Allan Poe, livro A Dream Within a Dream
"A Dream Within a Dream" (1849).
Contexto: 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.
“Beauty is the sole legitimate province of the poem.”
— Edgar Allan Poe, livro A Filosofia da Composição
"The Philosophy of Composition" (published 1846).
“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).
“Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.”
— Edgar Allan Poe, livro The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether
"The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether" (1845)
“You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;”
— Edgar Allan Poe, livro A Dream Within a Dream
"A Dream Within a Dream" (1849).
Contexto: 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.
— Edgar Allan Poe, Annabel Lee
St. 2.
Annabel Lee (1849)
Contexto: 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.
— Edgar Allan Poe, Annabel Lee
St. 1.
Annabel Lee (1849)
Contexto: 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.
— Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven
Stanza 1.
The Raven (1844)
Contexto: 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.
“And now have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the senses?”
— Edgar Allan Poe, livro The Tell-Tale Heart
The Tell-Tale Heart (1843)
Contexto: 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.
“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)
Variante: If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
— Edgar Allan Poe, livro The Black Cat
The Black Cat (1843)
“Sleep. Those little slices of death. How I loathe them.”
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
“And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor
Shall be lifted — nevermore!”
— Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven
Stanza 18.
The Raven (1844)
“As for myself, I am simply Hop-Frog, the jester — and this is my last jest.”
— Edgar Allan Poe, livro Hop-Frog
"Hop-Frog" (1850).
“O, human love! thou spirit given,
On Earth, of all we hope in Heaven!”
— Edgar Allan Poe, Tamerlane
"Tamerlane", l. 177 (1827).
“Years of love have been forgot
In the hatred of a minute.”
To M——— (1829), reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
— Edgar Allan Poe, livro The Black Cat
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)
“All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.”
Fonte: báseň A Dream Within a Dream
“By a route obscure and lonely,
Haunted by ill angels only,”
"Dreamland", st. 1 (1845).
Contexto: 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.
“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).
Contexto: 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
— Edgar Allan Poe, livro Berenice
"Berenice".
“Thy grace, thy more than beauty,
Shall be an endless theme of praise,
And love — a simple duty.”
" To Frances S. Osgood http://www.readbookonline.net/readOnLine/595/" (1845).
Contexto: 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.
“Thou wast that all to me, love,
For which my soul did pine —”
— Edgar Allan Poe, livro To One in Paradise
"To One in Paradise", st. 1 (1834).
Contexto: 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.
"Dreamland", st. 1 (1845).
Contexto: 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.
