P Lovecraft
P Lovecraft
nightmare scream hours
And where Nyarlathotep went, rest vanished, for the small hours were rent with the screams of nightmare.
men towns
With hidden powers of unknown extent apparently at his disposal, Curwen was not a man who could safely be warned to leave town.
dream house tears
Sometimes one feels that it would be merciful to tear down these houses, for they must often dream.
thinking used should
Maybe, just maybe, I should not have used the word "eldritch" so many times now that I think about it...
emotional two foundation
I can look back . . . at two distinct periods of opinion whose foundations I have successively come to distrust a period before 1919 or so, when the weight of classic authority unduly influenced me, and another period from 1919 to about 1925, when I placed too high a value on the elements of revolt, florid colour, and emotional extravagance or intensity.
lonely massachusetts mystery
To me there is nothing more fraught with mystery & terror than a remote Massachusetts farmhouse against a lonely hill. Where else could an outbreak like the Salem witchcraft have occurred?
hours sat realising
Something like fear chilled me as I sat there in the small hours alone-I say alone, for one who sits by a sleeper is indeed alone; perhaps more alone than he can realise.
book dark moon
The moon is dark, and the gods dance in the night; there is terror in the sky, for upon the moon hath sunk an eclipse foretold in no books of men or of earth's gods.
government safety intellectual
I am distinctly opposed to visibly arrogant and arbitrary extremes of government--but this is simply because I wish the safety of an artistic and intellectual civilisation to be secure, not because I have any sympathy with the coarse-grained herd who would menace the civilisation if not placated by sops.
school artist giving
The poetical tendency of the present and of the preceding century has been divided in a manner singularly curious. One loud and conspicuous faction of bards, giving way to the corrupt influences of a decaying general culture, seems to have abandoned all the properties of versification and reason in its mad scramble after sensational novelty; whilst the other and quieter school constituting a more logical evolution from the poesy of the Georgian period, demands an accuracy of rhyme and metre unknown even to the polished artists of the age of Pope.
real men distinction
Men of broader intellect know that there is no sharp distinction betwixt the real and the unreal
book home boys
I have dwelt ever in realms apart from the visible world; spending my youth and adolescence in ancient and little-known books, and in roaming the fields and groves of the region near my ancestral home. I do not think that what I read in these books or saw in these fields and groves was exactly what other boys read and saw there; but of this I must say little, since detailed speech would but confirm those cruel slanders upon my intellect which I sometimes overhear from the whispers of the stealthy attendants around me.
rhyme glorious verses
The glorious Dryden, refiner and purifier of English verse, did less for rhyme than he did for metre.
advantage perceive vague
Religion struck me so vague a thing at best, that I could perceive no advantage of any one system over any other.