Famous Quotes by George Sterling

“And fragile is thy tenure of this worldStill haunted by the monstrous ghost of God.(To Science)”

And the sea shall grant each man new hope, as sleep brings dreams of home.

The stars are forever, but men pass like whispers in the night.

There is a strange melancholy in the ocean's voice, as if it mourned for something lost.

There is no joy so great as the surge of the sea, and no bitter cry so poignant as the wind in the pines.

Life has its own subtle wisdom; it pleases and torments by turns.

The poet dreams in silence, while the world shakes with tumult.

Man is a lonely soul, helpless against the vastness of the universe.

In the end, all men are poets in their longing and fools in their hope.

Our dreams are fireflies — glimpses of light in the darkness.

We are the weary and the star-crazed, waiting for the dawn.