Quotes by : George Sterling

Or sit they girt by laws unknownWhereto the senses serve as bars –With fire of unrecorded starsThat....

The pathway traced with blood and tears,and dust of all our father's dead,Whose backward footsteps, wandering,....

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

O Space and Time and stars at strife,How dreadful your infinity!Shrined by your termless trinity,How....

Be sure that head and heart were laidIn wisdom down, content to die.Be sure he faced the Starless SkyUnduped,....

The candle glimmers but an hour. The nightLooms in its ancient hunger. Would you knowThe tragedy of human....

Within its gates I heard the soundOf winds in cypress caverns caughtOf huddling tress that moaned, and....

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

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

A prison becomes a home when you have the key.