For I have always been a seeker, a dreamer, and a ponderer on seeking and dreaming...

When Randolph Carter was thirty he lost the key of the gate of dreams.

The more he withdrew from the world around him, the more wonderful became his dreams.

There are so many persons who know what wonders are opened to them in the stories and visions of their youth; for when as children we listen and dream, we think but half-formed thoughts, and when as men we try to remember, we are dulled and proasic with the poison of life.

Existen repliegues en el tiempo y en el espacio, en la fantasía y en la realidad, que sólo un soñador puede adivinar...

In my dreams I found a little of the beauty I had vainly sought in life, and wandered through old gardens and enchanted woods.

Wise men have interpreted dreams, and the gods have laughed.

You have been my friend in the cosmos; you have been my only friend on this planet - the only soul to sense and seek for me within the repellent form which lies on this couch. We shall meet again - perhaps in the shining mists of Orion’s Sword, perhaps on a bleak plateau in prehistoric Asia. Perhaps in unremembered dreams tonight; perhaps in some other form an aeon hence, when the solar system shall have been swept away.

It is new, indeed, for I made it last night in a dream of strange cities; and dreams are older than brooding Tyre, or the contemplative Sphinx, or garden-girdled Babylon.