A prison becomes a home when you have the key.

George Sterling

Tags: philosophy conformity anarchy



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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 Suns”)

George Sterling

Tags: life time infinity space



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Till her appointed course be run;
Till on the darkness faint her breath
Flown to the silent void, and Death
Sit crowned upon the ashen sun.
(“The Testimony of the Suns”)

George Sterling

Tags: death apocalypse



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What silence rules the ghostly hours
That guard the close of human sleep!
(“The Testimony of the Suns”)

George Sterling

Tags: silence sleep apocalypse armageddon



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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 Fear”)

George Sterling

Tags: horror trees supernatural graveyard cemetery scary



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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 Skies”)

George Sterling

Tags: history time monsters gods



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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!

George Sterling

Tags: time death transiency



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A little while, their hunger unfulfilled,
The mothlike worlds flit 'round the guttering sun.
("Ephemera")

George Sterling

Tags: history time apocalypse armageddon transience



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The pathway traced with blood and tears,
and dust of all our father's dead,
Whose backward footsteps, wandering, red,
Fade to the mist of nameless years.
(“The Testimony of the Suns”)

George Sterling

Tags: past history time



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When sunset, like a crimson throat to hell, is cavernous...
(“A Wine of Wizardry”)

George Sterling

Tags: sunset



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