Edgar 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
                                        
                                        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.”
                                        
                                        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 
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“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.”
                                        
                                        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.”
                                        
                                        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 
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“Todas as coisas criadas são pensamentos de Deus.”
                                        
                                        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.
“Senhor, ajude minha pobre alma.”
                                        
                                        "Lord help my poor soul." 
Edgar Allan Poe em suas últimas palavras 
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“Não é na ciência que está a felicidade, mas na aquisição da ciência.”
                                        
                                        not in knowledge is happiness, but in the acquisition of knowledge 
The Power of Words
                                    
Edgar Allan Poe: Frases em inglês
“Come! let the burial rite be read — the funeral song be sung!”
                                        
                                        An anthem for the queenliest dead that ever died so young —
A dirge for her the doubly dead in that she died so young. 
"Lenore", st. 1 (1831).
                                    
“For the love of God Montresor!”
"The Cask of Amontillado" (1846).
                                        
                                        quit the bust above my door!
Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!"
Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore." 
Stanza 17. 
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. 
" Letter to Mrs. Whitman http://www.lfchosting.com/eapoe/WORKS/letters/p4810181.htm" (1848-10-18).
                                    
                                        
                                        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 Frances S. Osgood http://www.readbookonline.net/readOnLine/595/" (1845).
                                    
 
 
        
     
        
     
        
     
        
     
        
     
        
     
        
     
        
     
        
    