19 Quotes by George Sterling

As a breath on glass, -As witch-fires that burn,The gods and monsters pass,Are dust, and return.(“The Face of the Skies”)

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”)

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”)

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

A prison becomes a home when you have the key.

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

What silence rules the ghostly hours That guard the close of human sleep!

The cool, grey city of love.

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.