"The cool, grey city of love." — George Sterling
"The cool, grey city of love."
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George Sterling
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8 Quotes by George Sterling
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Let him who is worthy by reason of his clear eye and unjaded heart wander across these borders of beauty…
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A prison becomes a home when you have the key.
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And starward drifts the stricken world, Lone in unalterable gloom Dead, with a universe for tomb, Dark, and to vaster…
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O Space and Time and stars at strife, How dreadful your infinity! Shrined by your termless trinity, How strange, how…
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As a breath on glass, - As witch-fires that burn, The gods and monsters pass, Are dust, and return. (“The…
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And fragile is thy tenure of this world Still haunted by the monstrous ghost of God. ("To Science")
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Within its gates I heard the sound Of winds in cypress caverns caught Of huddling tress that moaned, and sought…
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