Astronomy Quote by Robert W. Chambers

“Strange is the night where black stars rise, and strange moons circle through the skies, but stranger still is lost Carcosa.” quote by Robert W. Chambers — Download Open image

““Strange is the night where black stars rise, and strange moons circle through the skies, but stranger still is lost Carcosa.””

Robert W. Chambers

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“A spring sun was shining on the rue St. Honore, as I ran down the church steps. On one corner stood a barrow full of yellow jonquils, pale violets from the Riviera, dark Russian violets, and white Roman hyacinths in a golden cloud of mimosa. The street was full of Sunday pleasure-seekers. I swung my cane and laughed with the…

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“Let the red dawn surmise What we shall do, When this blue starlight dies And all is through.” (The Yellow Sign)”

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“for I knew that the King in Yellow had opened his tattered mantle and there was only God to cry to now.”

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“Why should the Mass of Sainte Cécile bend my thoughts wandering among caverns whose walls blaze with ragged masses of virgin silver? What was it in the roar and turmoil of Broadway at six o'clock that flashed before my eyes the picture of a still Breton forest where sunlight filtered through spring foliage and Sylvia bent, half curiously, half tenderly,…

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“The people faded away, the arches, the vaulted roof vanished. I raised my seared eyes to the fathomless glare; and I saw the black…

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“It is well known how the book spread like an infectious disease, from city to city, from continent to continent, barred out here, confiscated there, denounced by press and pulpit, censured even by the most advanced of literary anarchists. No definite principles had been violated in those wicked pages, no doctrine promulgated, no convictions outraged. It could not be judged…

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“As it recurred again and again, it set me thinking of what my architect's books say about the custom in early times to consecrate the choir as soon as it was built, and that the nave, being finished sometimes half a century later, often did not get any blessing at all: I wondered idly if that had been the case…

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