“On a waste place strewn with bricks in the outskirts of a town twilight was falling. A star or two appeared over the smoke, and distant windows lit mysterious lights. The stillness deepened and the loneliness. Then all the outcast things that are silent by day found voices.” NightDarknessOutcasts Of Poker Flat Book:A Dreamer's Tales Source: A Dreamer's Tales
“And you who sought for magic in your youth but desire it not in your age, know that there is a blindness of spirit which comes from age, more black than the blindness of eye, making a darkness about you across which nothing may be seen, or felt, or known, or in any way apprehended.” KnowsWayMayEyeAgeSpiritDesireFeltBlackKnownDarknessMagicYouthBlindness Author:Lord Dunsany
“Of pure poetry there are two kinds, that which mirrors the beauty of the world in which our bodies are, and that which builds the more mysterious kingdoms where geography ends and fairyland begins, with gods and heroes at war, and the sirens singing still, and Alph going down to the darkness from Xanadu.” WorldKindStillsTwoWarEndsBodyDarknessHeroPureSingingMirrorsKingdomsMysteriousGeographySirensBeauty Of The World Author:Lord Dunsany