George Sterling Quotes

• A prison becomes a home when you have the key.

  George Sterling

  Philosophy, Home, Keys

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• 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.

  George Sterling

  Heart, Eye, San Francisco

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• Thy Banners gleam a little, and are furled; Against thy turrets surge His phantom tow'rs; Drugged with his Opiates the nations nod, Refusing still the beauty of thine hours; And fragile is thy tenure of this world Still haunted by the monstrous ghost of God.

  George Sterling

  Atheism, World, Littles

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

  George Sterling

  Sleep, Silence, Hours

  George Sterling, “The Testimony Of The Suns”

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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

  Fire, Glasses, Dust

  George Sterling (1921). “Sails and Mirage”

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• The cool, grey city of love.

  George Sterling

  Cities, San Francisco, Bay Area

  George Sterling (1921). “Sails and Mirage”

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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

  Dream, Wind, Roots

  George Sterling (1908). “A Wine of Wizardry: And Other Poems”

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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

  Stars, Space, Sun

  George Sterling (1904). “The Testimony of the Suns, and Other Poems”

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• And starward drifts the stricken world, Lone in unalterable gloom Dead, with a universe for tomb, Dark, and to vaster darkness whirled. (“The Testimony of the Suns”)

  George Sterling

  Dark, World, Sun

  George Sterling, “The Testimony Of The Suns”

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• And fragile is thy tenure of this world Still haunted by the monstrous ghost of God. ("To Science")

  George Sterling

  Atheism, World, Ghost

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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

  Brother, Stars, Night

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