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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Une danse est un poe' me. A dance is a poem.
Denis Diderot— 1757 Entretiens sur le fils naturel, pt.3.
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 EÅ luard— 1936 L'Evidence poe tique.
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'.
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'.
Le poe' te est vraiment voleur de feu. The poet is the true fire-stealer.
— 1871 Letter to Paul Demeny,15 May.
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.
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.
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.
'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))
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
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
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)
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
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.
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")
poe is a kind of Hawthorne and delirium tremens.
leslie stephen— The Cornhill Magazine, vol. 26 (1872) p. 729
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)
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.
