Author: Algernon Blackwood

Cites

• Francis Thompson (1)
  • IN: The Education of Uncle Paul (1908) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Know you what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of to-day. It is to have a spirit yet streaming from the waters of baptism; it is to believe in love, to believe in loveliness, to believe in belief; it is to be so little that the elves can reach to whisper in your ear; it is to turn pumpkins into coaches, and mice into horses, lowness into loftiness, and nothing into everything, for each child has its fairy godmother in its own soul; it is to live in a nutshell and to count yourself the king of infinite space; it is To see a world in a grain of sand, And a Heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour; it is to know not as yet that you are under sentence of life, nor petition that it be commuted into death.
    FROM: "Shelley", (1908), Poem, UK
• William James (2)
  • IN: The Centaur (1911) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: ... A man's vision is the great fact about him. Who cares for Carlyle's reasons, or Spencer's? A philosophy is the expression of a man's intimate character, and all definitions of the Universe are but the deliberately adopted reactions of human characters upon it.
    FROM: A Pluralistic Universe, (1908), Book, US

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• H. P. Lovecraft (1)
  • IN: The Call of Cthulhu (1928) Short Story, American
    EPIGRAPH: Of such great powers or beings there may be conceivably a survival… a survival of a hugely remote period when… consciousness was manifested, perhaps, in shapes and forms long since withdrawn before the tide of advancing humanity… forms of which poetry and legend alone have caught a flying memory and called them gods, monsters, mythical beings of all sorts and kinds…
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, UK