Arthur Machen
Arthur Machen
Arthur Machenwas a Welsh author and mystic of the 1890s and early 20th century. He is best known for his influential supernatural, fantasy, and horror fiction. His novella The Great God Panhas garnered a reputation as a classic of horror. He is also well known for his leading role in creating the legend of the Angels of Mons...
NationalityWelsh
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth3 March 1863
dream men ties
If a man dreams that he has committed a sin before which the sun hid his face, it is often safe to conjecture that, in sheer forgetfulness, he wore a red tie, or brown boots with evening dress.
strange forgotten obscure
There are strange things lost and forgotten in obscure corners of the newspaper.
stars lying soul
In every grain of wheat there lies hidden the soul of a star.
importance introduction consequence
For, usually and fitly, the presence of an introduction is held to imply that there is something of consequence and importance to be introduced.
dream moving mean
It is all nonsense, to be sure; and so much the greater nonsense inasmuch as the true interpretation of many dreams - not by any means of all dreams - moves, it may be said, in the opposite direction to the method of psycho-analysis.
fall trying saint
The saint endeavors to recover a gift which he has lost; the sinner tries to obtain something which was never his. In brief, he repeats the Fall.
dream silly years
Now, everybody, I suppose, is aware that in recent years the silly business of divination by dreams has ceased to be a joke and has become a very serious science.
men wish saint
It appears to me that it [sin] is simply an attempt to penetrate into another and higher sphere in a forbidden manner. You can understand why it is so rare. There are few, indeed, who wish to penetrate into other spheres, higher or lower, in ways allowed or forbidden. Men, in the mass, are amply content with life as they find it. Therefore there are few saints, and sinners (in the proper sense) are fewer still.
heart perfect valleys
There are certain scenes, certain hills and valleys and groves of pines which demand that a story shall be written about them. I would refine; I would say that the emotions aroused by these external things reverberating in the heart are indeed the story; or all that signifies the story....We translate a hill into a tale, conceive lovers to explain a brook, turn the perfect into the imperfect.
secret world mystery
And it is utterly true that he who cannot find wonder, mystery, awe, the sense of a new world and an undiscovered realm in the places by the Gray's Inn Road will never find these secrets elsewhere...
pride silence weakness
silence is not weakness and decency is not pride
rehabilitation succeed failing
It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible.
stories being-true turns
Old stories often turn out to be true.
running eye men
Very softly, but very swiftly, Last, the man with the grey face and the staring eyes, bolted for his life, down and away from the White House. Once in the road, free from the fields and brakes, he changed his run into a walk, and he never paused or stopped, till he came with a gulp of relief into the ugly streets of the big industrial town. He made hi way to the station at once, and found that he was an hour too soon for the London express. So, there was plenty of time for breakfast; which consisted of brandy.