A.E. Howard
A.E. Howard
war skills barbarians
When a nation forgets her skill in war, when her religion becomes a mockery, when the whole nation becomes a nation of money-grabbers, then the wild tribes, the barbarians drive in... Who will our invaders be? From whence will they come?
palate
I live, I burn with life, I love, I slay, & am content.
no-fear hell torture
I have no fear of the Hereafter. An orthodox hell could hardly be more torture than my life has been.
wine blue flames
Let me live deep while I live; let me know the rich juices of red meat & stinging wine on my palate, the hot embrace of white arms, the mad exultation of battle when the blue blades flame crimson, and I am content"......Conan the Cimmerian.
country expression civilization
In the hill country, civilization steals in last, and the people retain much of the crude but vigorous mode of expression of the colonial days and earlier.
real thinking people
Don't you think that as a people, Americans have less poetry, real poetry, in their souls than any other nations?
suicide done lamps
All fled—all done, so lift me on the pyre— The Feast is over, and the lamps expire.
real life-is illusion
I know this: if life is illusion, then I am no less an illusion, and being thus, the illusion is real to me. I live, I burn with life, I love, I slay, and am content.
natural barbarism states
Barbarism is the natural state of mankind,
men blood storm
But not all men seek rest and peace; some are born with the spirit of the storm in their blood.
future dark men
Man is better without knowledge of things to come, for what is to be will be, and man can neither avert nor hasten. It is better to go in the dark when the road must pass a lion and there is no other road.
enemy safe headless
The only safe enemy was a headless enemy.
death lonely midnight
It is not pleasant to come upon Death in a lonely place at midnight.
death stand-alone dies
When I cannot stand alone, it will be time to die.