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When Randolph Carter was thirty he lost the key of the gate of dreams.

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Imagination is a very potent thing, and in the uneducated often usurps the place of genuine experience.

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Outside, across the putrid moat and under the dark mute trees, I would often lie and dream for hours about what I read in the books; and would longing...more

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You have been my friend in the cosmos; you have been my only friend on this planet - the only soul to sense and seek for me within the repellent form ...more

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I shall never be very merry or very sad, for I am more prone to analyse than to feel.

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I expect nothing of man, and disown the race. The only folly is expecting what is never attained; man is most contemptible when compared with his own ...more

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All life is only a set of pictures in the brain, among which there is no difference betwixt those born of real things and those born of inward dreamin...more

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But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?

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Wise men have interpreted dreams, and the gods have laughed.

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There are so many persons who know what wonders are opened to them in the stories and visions of their youth; for when as children we listen and dream...more

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For I have always been a seeker, a dreamer, and a ponderer on seeking and dreaming...

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I am a student of life, and don't want to miss any experience. There's poetry in this sort of thing, you know--or perhaps you don't know, but it's all...more