Aisle Quote by Charles Dickens

“The spirit looks upon the Dust That fastened it so long With indignation, As a Bird Defrauded of it's Song.”

— Emily Dickinson

“You, still the squanderers of the empty hall — when the twilight comes, wide as woods… And the chandelier, like a sixteen-pointer, vaults where…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“I followed the curve that rose from the capitals of the semicircle of columns and ran along the ribs of the vault toward the…

— Umberto Eco

“Finding it so directly on the threshold of our narrative, which is now about to issue from that inauspicious portal, we could hardly do…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Bowerbird" Recently I rescued a supermarket bag from the crotch of a tree, found fewer shields than souvenirs, figured out how to game the…

— Mark Bibbins

“Having completed that emotional collapse, I next bounce off a little vision-quest right as the steady drumbeat accelerates into the Fearing Time: desert monuments…

— Randolph Crowley

“Once the frontiers of horror have been crossed, one will pass from form to form beyond the human and from metamorphosis to metamorphosis to…

— Georges Limbour

“The mountains that enfold the vale With walls of granite, steep and high, Invite the fearless foot to scale Their stairway toward the sky.…

— Henry Van Dyke

“But at my back I always hear Time’s wingèd chariot hurrying near; And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity. Thy beauty…

— Andrew Marvell

“mingling with the remains of the plane, equally fragmented, equally absurd, there floated the debris of the soul, broken memories, sloughed-off selves, severed mother…

— Salman Rushdie

“Like everyone, I had,on many previous occasions, ignored a half-open door leading elsewhere - in the chilly passages of strange houses, in backyards, on…

— Michel Ajvaz

“Perhaps one may be out late, and had got separated from one's companions. Oh horrors! Suddenly one starts and trembles as one seems to…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky