Quotes from Edgar Po in English with translation
Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809, Boston, USA - October 7, 1849, Baltimore, USA) was an American writer, poet, essayist, literary critic and editor, representative of American romanticism.
Wikipedia. There is no loneliness worse than being alone in a crowd...
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How meaningless our speeches can be when we strive to give them special power.
Start branding a worthy person as a scoundrel - and you will fill him with the desire to prove to you that you are not mistaken.
Wisdom must rely on the unexpected.
..no wisdom can comprehend the immensity. what real life can throw at you.
RAVEN Once at midnight, at a dull hour, I delved into it, tired, without strength,
Between ancient volumes, in the lines of reasoning of one
According to rejected science, I vaguely heard sounds,
Suddenly there was a knock at the door - a knock at my entrance.
“This is a guest,” I muttered, “there, at my entrance,
Guest - and nothing more!”
Oh! I remember so clearly: it was December and a stormy day... show full text...
Those who dream in reality on a clear day always go much further than those who dream only while falling asleep at night.
It is precisely when people are especially eager to throw off the burden of their own misfortunes that they are least concerned about how to alleviate the lot of their neighbor
Gray hair is an archive of the past.
But I am convinced to the depths of my soul that the spirit of contradiction belongs to the eternal motivating principles in the human heart - to the inalienable, primordial abilities that determine the very nature of Man. Who hasn’t done a bad thing a hundred times without any reason, just because it shouldn’t be done?
Anyone who has felt affection for a faithful and intelligent dog has no need to explain with what ardent gratitude she pays for it. There is something in the unselfish and selfless love of the beast that conquers the heart of anyone who has more than once experienced the treacherous friendship and deceptive devotion characteristic of Man.
There are many closely related phenomena, Two-faced properties (oh, where they are not found!). Life is a duality of such people, united like a thing and a shadow, matter and light.
There is a dual, integral silence of Soul and body, land and water. In places where tracks are overgrown with grass, It nests, but memories
And experience says: don’t expect trouble - ... show full text ...
I am mentally ill, but with severe frequent mental health attacks
In deep thinking it is easy to become too clever.
The lack of a single comma often turns an axiom into a paradox or sarcasm into a sermon.
In solitude I seek peace, but not despondency.
I'm going crazy with long intervals of terrible sanity.
One of my favorites
Truth does not always dwell at the bottom of a well. In pressing matters, in my opinion, it rather lies on the surface. We are looking for her at the bottom of the gorges, and she is waiting for us on the mountain peaks. To understand the nature of such errors and their cause, let us turn to the observation of celestial bodies. Take a quick glance at the star, look at it with the edge of the retina (more sensitive to weak light stimuli than the center), and you will see the star with all clarity and will be able to appreciate its brilliance, which dims as you turn to look at it point blank. In the latter case, more rays will fall on the eye, but in the former, the receptivity is much sharper. Excessive depth only confuses and clouds thoughts. A too focused, persistent and persistent gaze can drive Venus out of heaven.
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Sayings, aphorisms and quotes by Edgar Allan Poe.
Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) American critic, writer, poet, editor, essayist
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Misfortune is multifaceted. The many faces of earthly grief. Spanning a wide horizon like a rainbow, it contains as many colors as this celestial arch - and as different from each other, and just as merging together. Covering the wide horizon like a rainbow! Why did I see the embodiment of ugliness in beauty, and the smile of sorrow as the guarantee of serenity? But just as in ethics evil is a consequence of good, so in life sorrow is born from joy: memories of past bliss become present suffering, and unfulfilled delights turn into torment.
Story, Reasoning
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And I cried out in passionate grief: “Are you a bird, or a terrible spirit, whether sent by the Tempter, or nailed here by a thunderstorm, - You are a fearless prophet! To a sad, unsociable land, to a land overcome with melancholy, you came here to me! Oh, tell me, will I find oblivion - I pray, tell me when?” Raven croaked: “Never.”
Sad Quotes, Prophet, Fear
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Anyone who has felt affection for a faithful and intelligent dog has no need to explain with what ardent gratitude she pays for it. There is something in the unselfish and selfless love of the beast that conquers the heart of anyone who has more than once experienced the treacherous friendship and deceptive devotion characteristic of Man.
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You conquered, and I obeyed, from now on your memory is as dead as the world, heaven and hope are dead, from now on your actions are in me. And my death and its face, which belongs to you completely, you killed yourself.
Submission, Compliance, Murder
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The wave was poisoned, And Death in the depths of the waters was waiting for One who could only console himself with the fact that he was alone in the world, And wandered into a deserted land In the hope of finding Paradise here.
Loneliness, Paradise
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There are many closely related phenomena, Two-faced properties (oh, where they are not found!). Life is the duality of such compounds as thing and shadow, matter and light.
Life
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It is precisely when people are especially eager to throw off the burden of their own misfortunes that they are least concerned about how to alleviate the lot of their neighbor
Problems, Indifference
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Oh, happiness does not lie in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge! In eternal knowledge there is eternal bliss; but knowing everything is hellish torment.
Cognition
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One subject in a hundred is widely discussed because it is incomprehensible; 99 items out of a hundred are incomprehensible because they are widely discussed.
People, Discussion
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Start branding a worthy person as a scoundrel - and you will fill him with the desire to prove to you that you are not mistaken.
People
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Corruption of taste is part and consequence of making dollars. Our ideas become outdated as we get richer.
Richness, Taste
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Ignorance is happiness, but to be completely happy it must be so deep that one is unaware of oneself.
Ignorance
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Those who dream in reality on a clear day always go much further than those who dream only while falling asleep at night.
Dream, Fantasy
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A truly happy person: he always lives in anticipation of the happiness that is about to come.
Life, Relationships, Happiness
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The lack of a single comma often turns an axiom into a paradox or sarcasm into a sermon.
Sermon, Meaning
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If you want to forget something immediately, write down that you must remember it.
Memory, Tips
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How meaningless our speeches can be when we strive to give them special power.
Book
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I understood that hope for such an unfortunate person as I was beyond the boundaries of this life.
Hope
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Edgar Allan Poe is an American writer, poet, literary critic and editor, a representative of American romanticism.
He received the greatest fame for his “dark” stories. Creator of the modern detective form. The work of Edgar Allan Poe contributed to the emergence of the science fiction genre.
There is no loneliness worse than being alone in a crowd.
I'm going crazy with long intervals of terrible sanity.
The majority opinion is always wrong, because most people are idiots.
(Public opinion is obviously a false opinion, since most people are complete idiots.)
Those who dream in reality on a clear day always go much further than those who dream only while falling asleep at night.
And everything I loved, I loved alone.
There are many closely related phenomena, Two-faced properties (oh, where they are not found!). Life is the duality of such compounds as thing and shadow, matter and light.
The lack of a single comma often turns an axiom into a paradox or sarcasm into a sermon.
I have a strong belief in fools; my friends call it self-confidence.
He will remain a child forever.
No transport will be favorable if you don’t know where to go.
Since childhood, I have not been like others. I didn’t see it the way everyone saw it.
A truly happy person: he always lives in anticipation of the happiness that is about to come.
It is a great misfortune not to be able to be alone.
If you want to forget something immediately, write down what you should remember about it.
I don’t expect my earthly destiny to be free from earthly corruption; Years of love I would not want to forget in the delirium of the moment.
And I’m not crying over My fate, which is similar to a curse: Over the fact that you are sad with me, With me, who is just a passer-by.
Among the thoughts of the frozen slabs, Your soul will see itself, - No one will enter into the darkness of the bed, Disturbing your innermost hour.
Be silent with yourself, you will hardly be here alone. After all, the spirits of the dead, who surrounded you in a crowd during life, will find you again in death: Their will is clearer here.
The darkness will be extinguished by the radiance of the night And the stars, closing their eyes, will not drop from the throne steeps With our hope a similar ray.
But the scarlet glow of the dimmed stars will seem like a burn, torment, and trembling of the eyelids to your tired soul, and it will cling to you forever.
You can’t drive these thoughts away from the circle, The circle of images closes tightly They, having found shelter in the soul, Like dew from a meadow, will not leave.
The Ether, the breath of God, has died down, And the haze over the hill is hollow, Transparent, ghostly trembling. Like a sign, it lies On the trees under the heavens, More mysterious than the secrets themselves.
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Edgar Allan Poe - Quotes
Edgar Allan Poe (English: Edgar Allan Poe; 1809 - 1849) was an American writer, poet, literary critic and editor, one of the most prominent representatives of American romanticism. Edgar Poe gained the greatest fame thanks to his “gloomy” (often mystical) stories. Creator of the modern detective form. The work of Edgar Allan Poe anticipated the emergence of the science fiction genre.
Quotes from poetry:
A moment of true happiness, That once constricted the chest, A vision of pride and power, Can never be returned.
("A Minute of True Happiness")
There are many closely related phenomena, Two-faced properties (oh, where they are not found!). Life is the duality of such compounds as thing and shadow, matter and light.
("Silence")
I do not think unreasonably that earthly power will write off the sin of that Pride that is sweetest of all;
("Tamerlane", 1827-1828/45)
| To the glory that was Greece, To the greatness that was Rome. “The quoted couplet has long become famous and, like Hamlet’s “to be or not to be,” exists in the memory of readers as if “separately” from everything else.” |
| To the glory that was Greece, And the grandeur that was Rome. |
| — “To Helen”, 1831, 1845 |
| The sky was gloomy and gray, the leaf on the tree was dry and gray, The leaf on the tree was withered and gray, That was the October atmosphere, The darkness of the years was darker than the caves... |
| — “Ulalum”, 1847 |
From prose
| In my opinion, poetry differs from scientific writing in that its immediate goal is pleasure, not truth; and from the novel - by the fact that they give pleasure in the indefinite instead of the definite and only under this condition are they poetry; for the novel contains visible images that evoke clear feelings, while poetry evokes unclear feelings and certainly needs music for this, since the perception of harmonic sounds is the most obscure of our sensations. Music combined with a pleasant thought is poetry; music without thought is just music; and thought without music is prose precisely because of its definiteness. — Preface to the collection “Poems” (1831) |
| A poem, in my opinion, is opposed to a work of science by having, for its immediate object, pleasure, not truth; to romance, by having for its object an indefinite instead of a definite pleasure, being a poem only so far as this object is achieved; romance presenting perceptible images with definite, poetry with indefinite sensations, to which end music is an essential, since the comprehension of sweet sound is our most indefinite conception. Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music without the idea is simply music; the idea without the music is prose from its very definitiveness. |
| — “Letter to ***”, 1831 |
| - Another one of your quirks! - said the prefect, who had a manner of calling “whimsies” everything that exceeded his understanding, and therefore truly lived among a legion of “whimsies.” |
| - "The Stolen Letter" |
| - This is a despicable lie! I cried. - This is an impudent newspaper duck of some paper scribbler for a penny line fee!... At least as far as I am concerned, personally, I will never believe anything that comes out of the circle of natural phenomena. |
| - "Genius of fantasy" |
| Then I became angry and cursed the river and the water lilies, and the wind, and the forest, and the sky, and the thunder, and the sighs of the water lilies with a curse of silence. And they were overwhelmed by my curse and became mute. And the moon stopped its difficult path across the sky, and the thunder died down, and the lightning did not shine any more, and the clouds hung motionless, and the waters entered their bed and remained there, and the trees stopped swaying, and the water lilies sighed no more and no more rose from them. the crowds are not the slightest whisper, not a sound throughout the vast desert without borders. And I looked at the inscription on the rock, and it changed; and now the letters made up the word: “Silence.” |
| — “Silence”, 1837 |
| The history of the accumulation of human knowledge continually proves one thing: we owe the largest number of the most valuable discoveries to concomitant, accidental or unforeseen circumstances, and therefore, in the end, when reviewing the prospects for the future, it became necessary to give not just the largest, but the largest place to future inventions that will arise due to chance and beyond what is expected and expected. It has now become incompatible with philosophy to make predictions about the future based only on what has already happened. Chance forms a recognized part of such constructions. We turn chance into a subject of precise calculations. We subject the unexpected and the unimaginable to scientific mathematical formulas. |
| The history of human knowledge has so uninterruptedly shown that to collateral, or incidental, or accidental events we are indebted for the most numerous and most valuable discoveries, that it has at length become necessary, in any prospective view of improvement, to make not only large, but the largest allowances for inventions that shall arise by chance, and quite out of the range of ordinary expectation. It is no longer philosophical to base, upon what has been, a vision of what is to be. Accident is admitted as a portion of the substructure. We make chance a matter of absolute calculation. We are subject to the unlooked for and unimagined, to the mathematical formulae of the schools. |
| — “The Mystery of Marie Roger”, 1842 |
| I intend to speak about the Physical, Metaphysical, and Mathematical - about the Material and Spiritual Universe: about its Essence, its Origin, its Creation, its Present State, and its Destiny. |
| I design to speak of the Physical, Metaphysical and Mathematical - of the Material and Spiritual Universe: - of its Essence, its Origin, its Creation, its Present Condition and its Destiny. |
| - “Eureka. Poem in prose", 1848 |
| …What [is called] “intuition” was only a conviction resulting from deduction or induction, the progress of which was so shadowy that it eluded his consciousness, eluded his reason, or mocked his power of expression… |
| …what he called 'intuition' was but the conviction resulting from deductions or inductions of which the processes were so shadowy as to have escaped his consciousness, eluded his reason, or bidden defiance to his capacity of expression… |
| - “Eureka. Poem in prose", 1848 |
| The expanse of green turf was, here and there, softened by individual, conspicuous shoots, such as hydrangea, or common viburnum, or fragrant mocktail; or, most often, individual clusters of geranium flowers, presented in lush variety. These latter flowers grew in pots carefully hidden in soil to give the plant a native appearance. Besides all this, the velvet of the meadow was exquisitely strewn with a multitude of sheep, which grazed in the valley, together with three tame fallow deer, and numerous brilliantly feathered ducks. The supervision of these creatures, all together and each individually, was, apparently, completely left to the huge yard dog. |
| — Landor's Cottage, 1849 |
Edgar Allan Poe. Quotes from the creator of the modern detective form
Date and place of birth: January 19, 1809, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Date and place of death: October 7, 1849 (age 40), Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
American writer, poet, essayist, literary critic and editor, representative of American romanticism. The creator of the form of modern detective fiction and the genre of psychological prose. Some of Edgar Poe's works contributed to the formation and development of science fiction, and such features of his work as irrationality, mysticism, doom, and anomalousness of the depicted states anticipated the literature of decadence. He is best known as the author of “scary” and mystical stories, as well as the poem “The Raven.”
Quotes and aphorisms
There is no loneliness worse than being alone in a crowd...
The majority opinion is always wrong, because most people are idiots.
No transport will be favorable if you don’t know where to go.
I have a strong belief in fools; my friends call it self-confidence.
I'm going crazy with long intervals of terrible sanity.
Gray hair is an archive of the past.
A coward is someone who is afraid to be or appear to be a coward when necessary.
And everything I loved, I loved alone.
It is a great misfortune not to be able to be alone.
The lack of a single comma often turns an axiom into a paradox or sarcasm into a sermon.
Those who dream in reality on a clear day always go much further than those who dream only while falling asleep at night.
Since childhood, I have not been like others. I didn’t see it the way everyone saw it.
He did not participate in our fun, except that his face, disfigured by the plague, and his eyes, in which death had only half extinguished the flame of disease, seemed to express that special curiosity that only the dead are capable of showing in the amusements of those doomed to death.
Corruption of taste is part and consequence of making dollars. Our ideas become outdated as we get richer.
A truly happy person: he always lives in anticipation of the happiness that is about to come.
One subject in a hundred is widely discussed because it is incomprehensible; 99 items out of a hundred are incomprehensible because they are widely discussed.
I don’t expect my earthly destiny to be free from earthly corruption; Years of love I would not want to forget in the delirium of the moment. And I’m not crying over My fate, which is similar to a curse: Over the fact that you are sad with me, With me, who is just a passer-by.
Ignorance is happiness, but to be completely happy it must be so deep that one is unaware of oneself.
