Lovecraft quote of the day

[Dante DiBenedetto]

An excerpt from Azathoth.

"When age fell upon the world, and wonder went out of the minds of men; when grey cities reared to smoky skies tall towers grim and ugly, in whose shadow none might dream of the sun or of spring’s flowering meads; when learning stripped earth of her mantle of beauty, and poets sang no more save of twisted phantoms seen with bleared and inward-looking eyes; when these things had come to pass, and childish hopes had gone away forever, there was a man who travelled out of life on a quest into the spaces whither the world’s dreams had fled."

 

[nerd literature]

My favorite is and will always be, "The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown." It incorporates the central theme to most of Lovecraft's writing, the search for forbidden knowledge.

 

[j d worthington]

When Hoops and No One sent me a surprise Christmas card, the latter went to the trouble of tracking down what he felt was the ideal Lovecraft quote for me. As it happens, it is one of my personal favorites, though it is not from a piece of fiction, or even one of his poems, but from the series of epistolary essays titled In Defence of Dagon:

Pleasure to me is wonder -- the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability. To trace the remote in the immediate; the eternal in the ephemeral; the past in the present; the infinite in the finite; these are to me the springs of delight and beauty.