George Sterling quotes
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“A prison becomes a home when you have the key.”
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“What silence rules the ghostly hours That guard the close of human sleep!”
-- George SterlingSource : George Sterling, “The Testimony Of The Suns”
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“The cool, grey city of love.”
-- George SterlingSource : George Sterling (1921). “Sails and Mirage”
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“Let him who is worthy by reason of his clear eye and unjaded heart wander across these borders of beauty and mystery and be glad.”
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“The candle glimmers but an hour. The night Looms in its ancient hunger. Would you know The tragedy of human love and need? Gaze on the stars, then on a brother's face!”
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“Within its gates I heard the sound Of winds in cypress caverns caught Of huddling tress that moaned, and sought To whisper what their roots had found. (“A Dream of Fearâ€)”
-- George SterlingSource : George Sterling (1908). “A Wine of Wizardry: And Other Poems”
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“And fragile is thy tenure of this world Still haunted by the monstrous ghost of God. ("To Science")”
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“As a breath on glass, - As witch-fires that burn, The gods and monsters pass, Are dust, and return. (“The Face of the Skiesâ€)”
-- George SterlingSource : George Sterling (1921). “Sails and Mirage”
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“O Space and Time and stars at strife, How dreadful your infinity! Shrined by your termless trinity, How strange, how terrible, is life! (“The Testimony of the Sunsâ€)”
-- George SterlingSource : George Sterling (1904). “The Testimony of the Suns, and Other Poems”
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“And starward drifts the stricken world, Lone in unalterable gloom Dead, with a universe for tomb, Dark, and to vaster darkness whirled. (“The Testimony of the Sunsâ€)”
-- George SterlingSource : George Sterling, “The Testimony Of The Suns”
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“Thy Banners gleam a little, and are furled; Against thy turrets surge His phantom tow'rs; Drugged with his Opiates the nations nod, Refusing still the beauty of thine hours; And fragile is thy tenure of this world Still haunted by the monstrous ghost of God.”
-- George Sterling
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