Poe Quotes 

Notwithstanding his desperate effort to realize Poe’s idea, he [Baudelaire] only proved Poe correct, who had said that no man can bare his heart quite naked; there always will be something held back, something false ostentatiously thrust forward. The grimace, the attitude, the pomp of rhetoric are so many buffers between the soul of man and the sharp reality of published confessions.
Charles Baudelaire
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En ge  ne  ral, plus un peuple est civilise  , poli, moins ses moeurs sont poe  tiques; tout s'affaiblit en s'adoucissant. Ingeneral, themore civilized and refinedthepeople, the less poetic are its morals; everything weakens as it mellows.

Denis Diderot

— 1758  Discours sur la poe  sie dramatique.

Tags: ge, plus, peuple, civilise, poli, moins, moeurs, tout, themore

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La poe  sie veutquelque chose d'e  norme, debarbare et de sauvage. Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.

Denis Diderot

— 1758  Discours sur la poe  sie dramatique.

Tags: chose, norme, sauvage, Poetry, needs, something, scale, grand, barbarous

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Le but de l'art est presque divin: ressusciter, s'il fait de l'histoire; cre  er, s'il fait de la poe  sie. The goal of art is almost divine: to resuscitate, if it concerns history; to create, if it concerns poetry.


— 1827  Cromwell, pre  face.

Tags: l'art, presque, divin, s'il, fait, l'histoire, cre, goal, art

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Seul le rythme provoque le court-circuit poe  tique et transmue le cuivre en or, la parole en verbe. Only rhythm brings about a poetic short-circuit and transforms the copper into gold, the words into life.

Le  opold Se  dar Senghor

— 1956  E?  thiopiques, postface.

Tags: Seul, rythme, provoque, tique, parole, verbe, rhythm, poetic, transforms

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La poe  sie est le langage naturel de tous les cultes. Poetry is the natural language of all religions.

Stae«  l, Germaine Necker, Baronne de

— 1810  De l'Allemagne.

Tags: langage, naturel, Poetry, natural, language, religions

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Une danse est un poe'  me. A dance is a poem.

Denis Diderot

— 1757  Entretiens sur le fils naturel, pt.3.

Tags: danse, me, dance, poem

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Le poe'  te est celui qui inspire bien plus que celui qui est inspire  . The poet is more the inspirer than the one who is inspired.

Paul pseudonym of  Euge'  ne Grindel EŁ  luard

— 1936  L'Evidence poe  tique.

Tags: celui, inspire, bien, plus, que, poet, more, inspirer, one

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   L'artiste n'a pasou le poe'  tepour fonction de trouver la solution pratique des proble'  mes du mal. It is not up to the artist or to the poet to find practical solutions to the problems of evil.

jean genet

— 1956  Le Balcon,'Avertissement'.

Tags: fonction, trouver, solution, pratique, mes, artist, poet, find, practical

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The life of the poet is the life of everyone.

Ge  rard de pseudonym of  Ge  rard Labrunie Nerval

— ' 1855  Petits Cha"  teaux de Bohe"  me,'A un ami'.

Tags: celle, life, poet, everyone

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Le poe'  te est vraiment voleur de feu. The poet is the true fire-stealer.


— 1871  Letter to Paul Demeny,15 May.

Tags: vraiment, voleur, feu, poet, true

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Il n'y a que la Beaute  et elle n'a qu'une expression parfaite, la poe  sie. There is only beautyand it has only one perfect expression, poetry.

Ste  phane Mallarme

— 1867  Letter to Cazalis.

Tags: que, elle, qu'une, expression, parfaite, There, beautyand, one, perfect

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La poe  sie est l'expression, par le langage humain ramene  e a'   son rythme essentiel, du sens myste  rieux des aspects de l'existence; elle doue ainsi d'authenticite notre se  jour et constitue la seule ta"  che spirituelle. Poetry is an expression, through human language restored to its essential rhythm, of the mysteriousness of existence; it endows our life with authenticity and constitutes our only spiritual task.

Ste  phane Mallarme

— 1884  Letter to M. Le  o d'Orfer, 27  Jun.

Tags: par, langage, humain, son, rythme, essentiel, sens, myste, rieux

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La poe  sie ne rythmera plus l'action; elle sera en avant. Poetry will no longer keep step with theaction; it will be ahead of it.


— 1871  Letter to Paul Demeny,15 May.

Tags: plus, l'action, elle, sera, avant, Poetry, longer, keep, step

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'It's rather like a poe story, isn't it,' said Patrick luxuriously, unfocusing his eyes. 'A person sees the chance of a better life passing by, and he makes as if to call out' - he flung one arm in the imploring gesture of a soul in torment - 'but something in his nature makes him hesitate. He pauses ... he closes his lips ... he steps back ... and then he slides down, and down, and down.'

helen garner

— Page 8. (Cosmo Cosmolino (1992))

Tags: story, Patrick, luxuriously, eyes, person, sees, chance, better, life

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Mervyn Peake is a finer poet than Edgar Allan poe, and he is therefore able to maintain his world of fantasy brilliantly through three novels. It (Gormenghast trilogy) is a very, very great work ... a classic of our age.

mervyn peake

— Robertson Davies

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poe with a cross, that's what you are, adored of the gangster age.

Charles Baudelaire

— Karl Shapiro, "Baudelaire in Iowa," from The Bourgeois Poet (1964); printed in The Wild Card: Selected Poems, Early & Late (University of Illinois Press, 1998, ISBN 0-252-06689-8), p. 148

Tags: cross, what, you, adored, gangster, age

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We should not allow ourselves to believe that writers like poe have more imagination than those who are content with describing things as they really are. It is surely easier to invent striking situations in this way than to tread the beaten track which intelligent minds have followed throughout the centuries.

eugène delacroix

— 6 April 1856 (p. 312)

Tags: We, allow, ourselves, believe, writers, more, imagination, who, content

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Against the wall, near the head of the bunk, was a rack filled with books. I glanced over them, noting with astonishment such names as Shakespeare, Tennyson, poe, and De Quincey. There were scientific works too, among which were represented men such as Tyndall, Proctor, and Darwin.

jack london

— Van Weydon discovers Wolf Larsen's astonishing array of reading matter. Chapter Five

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There comes poe , with his raven, like Barnaby Rudge, Three-fifths of him genius and two-fifths sheer fudge.

james russell lowell

— Pt. VI - Poe and Longfellow, st. 1.

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While poe and the Symbolists were exploring the irrational in literature, Freud had begun to explore the resonant figure/ground double-plot of the conscious and unconscious.

Marshall McLuhan

— p. 52 ("The Agenbite of Outwit")

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poe is a kind of Hawthorne and delirium tremens.

leslie stephen

— The Cornhill Magazine, vol. 26 (1872) p. 729

Tags: kind, Hawthorne, delirium, tremens

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poe is the only impeccable writer. He was never mistaken.

paul valéry

— Letter to writer André Gide. Quoted in Julian Symons, The Tell-Tale Heart: The Life and Works of Edgar Allan Poe, pt. 1, epilogue (1978)

Tags: impeccable, writer, never, mistaken

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Edgar Allan poe (himself) 1809 - 1849


— From his poem "The Raven". This inscription appears on his original grave marker. The current marker, in the same cemetery, bears just his name.

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There comes poe, with his raven, like Barnaby Rudge, Three-fifths of him genius and two-fifths sheer fudge.

james russell lowell

— 1848  'A Fable for Critics'.

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