Quotes by : Arthur Machen

If Roberts had been a poet or a painter or a musician we might have had a masterpiece. As he was neither:....

He remembered an old tale which his father was fond of telling him—the story of Eos Amherawdur (the....

Clarke, in the deep folds of dream, was conscious that the path from his father’s house had led him....

We both wondered whether these contradictions that one can't avoid if one begins to think of time and....

It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of....

Happiness, said De Quincey, on his discovery of the paradise that he thought he had found in opium, could....

I dream in fire but work in clay.

I think you are falling into the very general error of confining the spiritual world to the supremely....

He loved to meditate on a land laid waste, Britain deserted by the legions, the rare pavements riven....

We have just begun to navigate a strange region; we must expect to encounter strange adventures, strange....