“The love of fame is too high and delicate a feeling in the mind to be mixed up with realities, it is a solitary abstraction. * * * A name "fast anchored in the deep abyss of time" is like a star twinkling in the firmament, cold, silent, distant, but eternal and sublime; and our transmitting one to posterity is as if we should contemplate our translation to the skies.” IfsShouldMindFeelingsRealityNamesStarsSkyColdFameEternalSilentDelicateContemplatingSolitarySublimeAbyssAbstractionTranslationsPosterityFirmamentTwinkling Author:William Hazlitt
“A child's fear is a world whose dark corners are quite unknown to grownup people; it has its sky and its abysses, a sky without stars, abysses into which no light can ever penetrate.” PeopleWorldChildrenLightStarsDarkSkyCornersAbyssPenetrateGrownups Book:Midnight Source: Midnight
“When sleep enters the body like smoke and man journeys into the abyss like an extinguished star that is lighted elsewhere, then all quarrel ceases, overworked nag that has tossed the nightmare grip of its rider.” MenBodyStarsSleepJourneyDyingCeaseSmokeNightmareHolocaustElsewhereAbyssQuarrelsRiders Book:O the Chimneys: Selected Poems, Including the Verse Play, Eli Source: O the Chimneys: Selected Poems, Including the Verse Play, Eli