George Sterling Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“A prison becomes a home when you have the key.”
-- George Sterling

#Philosophy #Home #Keys

“What silence rules the ghostly hours That guard the close of human sleep!”
-- George Sterling

#Sleep #Silence #Hours
“The cool, grey city of love.”
-- George Sterling

#Cities #San Francisco #Grey
“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.”
-- George Sterling

#Heart #Eye #Borders
“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!”
-- George Sterling

#Brother #Stars #Night
“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. (â€œA Dream of Fearâ€)”
-- George Sterling

#Dream #Wind #Roots
“And fragile is thy tenure of this world Still haunted by the monstrous ghost of God. ("To Science")”
-- George Sterling

#Atheism #World #Ghost
“As a breath on glass, - As witch-fires that burn, The gods and monsters pass, Are dust, and return. (â€œThe Face of the Skiesâ€)”
-- George Sterling

#Fire #Glasses #Dust
“O Space and Time and stars at strife, How dreadful your infinity! Shrined by your termless trinity, How strange, how terrible, is life! (â€œThe Testimony of the Sunsâ€)”
-- George Sterling

#Stars #Space #Sun
“And starward drifts the stricken world, Lone in unalterable gloom Dead, with a universe for tomb, Dark, and to vaster darkness whirled. (â€œThe Testimony of the Sunsâ€)”
-- George Sterling

#Dark #World #Sun
“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

#Atheism #World #Littles

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