"The road was wet with rain, black and shiny like oilskin. The reflection of the street lamps wallowed like yellow jelly-fish."
- Mervyn Peake, Weird Shadows From Beyond ... See MoreSee Less

"The yellow glare from the shop-windows streamed out into the steamy, vaporous air, and threw a murky, shifting radiance across the crowded thoroughfare."
- Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of Four ... See MoreSee Less

"Anywhere, anywhere, as long as it be out of this world!"
- Charles Baudelaire, Paris Spleen ... See MoreSee Less

"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."
- William Blake, Auguries of Innocence. ... See MoreSee Less

"As soon as I enter the door of a tavern, I experience oblivion of care, and a freedom from solicitude."
- Samuel Johnson ... See MoreSee Less

"The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly."
- Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra ... See MoreSee Less

"I looked upon the scene before me - upon the mere house, and the simple landscape features of the domain - upon the bleak walls - upon the vacant eye-like windows"
- Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher ... See MoreSee Less

"Houses live and die: there is a time for building
And a time for living and for generation
And a time for the wind to break the loosened pane
And to shake the wainscot where the field-mouse trots
And to shake the tattered arras woven with a silent motto."
- T.S. Eliot, East Coker ... See MoreSee Less

"And now that I am dead they have set me up here so high that I can see all the ugliness and all the misery of my city, and though my heart is made of lead yet I cannot choose but weep."
- Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince ... See MoreSee Less

"Except for the point, the still point,
There would be no dance, and there is only the dance."
- T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets ... See MoreSee Less

"For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach."
- J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King ... See MoreSee Less

"It was neither an old stronghold nor a new mansion, but a rambling pile consisting of innumerable small buildings closely packed together and of one or two storeys; if K. had not known that it was a castle he might have taken it for a little town."
- Franz Kafka, The Castle ... See MoreSee Less

"Real museums are places where Time is transformed into Space."
- Orhan Pamuk, The Museum of Innocence ... See MoreSee Less

"We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken."
- Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment ... See MoreSee Less

"In the cellar, darkness prevails both day and night, and even when we are carrying a lighted candle, we see shadows dancing on the dark walls."
- Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space ... See MoreSee Less