Arthur Machen

Quotes

• “Language, he understood, was chiefly important for the beauty of its sounds, by its possession of words resonant, glorious to the ear, by its capacity, when- exquisitely arranged, of suggesting wonderful and indefinable impressions, perhaps more ravishing and farther removed from the domain of strict thought than the impressions excited by music itself.”
• “It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible.”
• “Here then is the pattern in my carpet, the sense of the eternal mysteries, the eternal beauty hidden beneath the crust of common and commonplace things; hidden and yet burning and glowing continually if you care to look with purged eyes.”
• “The psycho-analyst infers the monstrous and abnormal from a trifle; it is often safe to reverse the process. If a man dreams that he has committed a sin before which the sun hid his face, it is often safe to conjecture that, in sheer forgetfulness, he wore a red tie, or brown boots with evening dress.”

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Key facts

Born

Arthur Llewellyn Jones , ( 1863-03-03 ) 3 March 1863, Caerleon , Monmouthshire , Wales

Died

15 December 1947 (1947-12-15) (aged 84), Beaconsfield , Buckinghamshire, England

Occupation

Short story writer, novelist, journalist, actor

Genre

Horror , fantasy , supernatural fiction , weird fiction

Notable works

The Great God Pan , The Three Impostors , " The White People ", The Hill of Dreams

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