I can call spirits from the vasty deep.

...it was a huge creature, luminous, ghastly, and spectral. I have cross-examined these men, one of them a hard-headed countryman, one a farrier, and…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

The apparition of an evil, sick unconscious wild city rose before me in visible semblance, and about the dead buildings in the barren air,…

— Allen Ginsberg

“Some of the apparitions that emerged from the shadows of doorways and alleys were incomplete, manifesting in full only as they reached the light…

— C.D. Sweitzer

Spirits when they please Can either sex assume, or both.

— John Milton

In every block of marble I see a statue as plain as though it stood before me, shaped and perfect in attitude and action.…

— Anonymous

It is the human condition to question one god after another, one appearance after another, or better, one apparition after another, always pursuing the…

— Emile Chartier

The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.

— Ezra Pound

The nightmare Life-in-Death was she.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Everything that falls upon the eye is apparition, a sheet dropped over the world's true workings. The nerves and the brain are tricked, and…

— Marilynne Robinson

I came home from Portugal convinced that nothing is so important as making known what the Mother of God asked in those apparitions of…

— William Thomas Walsh

“Those places where sadness and misery abound are favoured settings for stories of ghosts and apparitions. Calcutta has countless such stories hidden in its…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Or art thou but / A dagger of the mind, a false creation, / Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?

— William Shakespeare

Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand?

— William Shakespeare

Like vanishing dew, a passing apparition or the sudden flash of lightning -- already gone -- thus should one regard one's self.

— Ikkyu

It is with sincere affection or friendship as with ghosts and apparitions,--a thing that everybody talks of, and scarce any hath seen.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld