Dan Simmons
Dan Simmons
Dan Simmonsis an American science fiction and horror writer. He is the author of the Hyperion Cantos and the Ilium/Olympos cycles...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth4 April 1948
CountryUnited States of America
loyalty love-is dust
In the end--when all else is dust--loyalty to those we love is all we can carry with us to the grave. Faith--true faith--was trusting in that love.
sleep good-things gravity
... all good things beyond sleep come precisely because we defy gravity while we live.
rome barbarians ruins
Barbarians, we call them, while all the while we timidly cling to our Web like Visigoths crouching in the ruins of Rome's faded glory and proclaim ourselves civilized.
revelations planets whole
The whole planet reeks of mysticism without revelation.
dream machines sometimes
Sometimes ... dreams are all that separate us from the machines.
children pain war
War must never be a condition but, rather, a temporary scourge which we suffer as a child does a fever, knowing that health follows the long night of pain and that peace is health.
dark historical afar
History viewed from the inside is always a dark, digestive mess, far different from the easily recognizable cow viewed from afar by historians.
snipers bullets poet
Words are the only bullets in truth's bandolier. And poets are the snipers.
memories lying expression
The life of a poet lies not merely in the finite language-dance of expression but in the nearly infinite combinations of perception and memory combined with the sensitivity to what is perceived and remembered.
matter events masters
It no longer matters who consider themselves the masters of events. Events no longer obey their masters.
economy petroleum
Nobody gets beyond a petroleum economy. Not while there's petroleum there.
love sleep too-much
The problem with being passionately in love ... is that it deprives you of too much sleep.
art moving artist
Artists recognize other artists as soon as the pencil begins to move.
reality mad poet
Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become.