"It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly co…"

"Here then is the pattern in my carpet, the sense of the eternal mysteries, the eternal beauty hidden beneath the crus…"

"The psycho-analyst infers the monstrous and abnormal from a trifle; it is often safe to reverse the process. If a man…"

"You see the mountain, and hill following after hill, as wave on wave, you see the woods and orchard, the fields of ri…"

"I can fancy what you saw. Yes; it is horrible enough; but after all, it is an old story, an old mystery played in our…"

"Of living creators of cosmic fear raised to its most artistic pitch, few if any can hope to equal the versatile Arthu…"

"Mr. Machen, with an impressionable Celtic heritage linked to keen youthful memories of the wild domed hills, archaic …"

"Imaro exploded. "Why do men fight like starving lions over yellow metal and let valuable cattle go?""

"Though there are exceptions in all species, many useful border plants — s, s, members of the , s — have foliage that …"

"For an extrovert April scheme of brilliant yellow and red, intolerable to a melancholy poet such as Eliot, combine a …"