At that time I was a great Wagnerian. I never lost an opportunity to hear Wagner's music either in the theatre or at concerts. Today I h...

If the world lasts another thousand years and as many books are written as today, then I think entire library-cities will come into being; b...

Die Bibliotheken werden endlich Städte werden, sagt Leibniz. [C 212] Wenn, was Leibniz geweissagt hat, dereinst die Bibliotheken Städte werd...

Nothing is more pleasant to the fancy, than to enlarge itself, by degrees, in its contemplation of the various proportions which its several...

Qu’il soit fondé sur un fait ou librement inventé, de toute façon ce n’est pas le sujet qui fait le roman, à plus forte r...

When you get to the end of this book [ The Third Policeman ] you realise that my hero or main character (he's a heel and a killer) has b...

Quare ex particulis hic mundus constat, ac ille
 Ex totis, vivis per se, distantibus a se,
 Singula nonnulli credunt quoque sidera posse
 Di...

I wish you to write a book on the power of words, and the processes by which human feelings form affinities with them—in short, I wish you t...

Nicolas Poussin, Le Triomphe de Cthulu (1633) Mercredi 10 juillet [1957] Bref nous vivons au milieu de crétins, en plein crétinisme, chez...

Ich brauche zu meinem Schreiben Abgeschiedenheit, nicht „wie ein Einsiedler“, das wäre nicht genug, sondern wie ein Toter...

Now I propose to note down the characteristics of Dreams, especially my infernal Dreams, as they occur to me—as so many parts of the Problem...

Habitually to dream magnificently, a man must have a constitutional determination to reverie. This in the first place; and even this, where ...

Scientiæ suntne inutiles?   R. Ita probatur. I. Rhetorica est ars mentiendi, ex albo facit nigrum, hominem candidæ vitæ atramento & meri...

26 April 1826. Wednesday Night. This Morning a little before three suffered one of my most grievous and alarming <Scream->Dreams—and o...

Quænam in mundo admiranda?   Resp. Quod omnes cornices sint nigræ; quod ratti æque cito currant ac mures; quod canes ossa arrodant et duglut...

La poésie, dans sa grande fonction, nous redonne les situations du songe. La maison natale est plus qu'un corps de logis, elle est un co...

Quis nasus est optimus? R. Magnus. Vide catalogum Imperatorum Romanorum, omnes fuerunt nasuti. Numa secundus rex Romanorum sesquipedalem nas...

 —then the fantastic puppet-old-man that threw himself in my way and under my feet where ever I went—my intreatng some one to take him away—...

 

As for Sleep, which the dying Philosopher called the Brother of Death,* I do not see how it argues the Soul’s Mortality, more than a man’s i...

Offenser la pudeur des divinités du songe. (...) S'entretenir d'idées pures et saines pour avoir des songes logiques. Prenez garde à...

Au cœur du rêve, je suis seul. Dépouillé de toutes mes garanties, dévêtu des artifices de langage, des protections sociales, des idéologies ...

Once was a god whose lovely face, Wan as the poppy and arched in wings, So haunted a votary with his grace And the still wonder that worship...

En värld är varje människa, befolkad av blinda varelser i dunkelt uppror mot jaget konungen som härskar över dem. I varje själ är tusen s...

Son of man, tell me, Hast thou at any time lain in thick darkness, Gazing up into a lightless silence, A dark void vacancy, Like the woe of ...

‘. . . that we mortals should dread the tomb—that’s only natural. And it’s when we are nearing the end that what may be called the real take...

© Alistair Ian Blyth "Language is the means of human communication. In human awareness, it is l anguage that limns the outer and the in...