Quotes by : George Sterling

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

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....

As a breath on glass, -As witch-fires that burn,The gods and monsters pass,Are dust, and return.(“The....

Where got she her sullen mouthAnd where her swaying form?Would she live on eggs and applesWhen the blood....

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

And starward drifts the stricken world,Lone in unalterable gloomDead, with a universe for tomb,Dark,....

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.