Lord Dunsany Quotes and Quotation

(July 24, 1878–October 25, 1957) - writer and dramatist, best known for his works of fantasy.

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"Once, as Mung went his way athwart the Earth and up and down its cities and across its plains, Mung came upon a man who was afraid when Mung said: "I am Mung!"

Source: The Gods of Pegāna, The Deeds of Mung (Lord of all Deaths between Pegāna and the Rim)

"Of course I do," I said. "Every one knows that."

"Oh no they don't," she said, "the mad don't know it."

"That is true," I said.

"And do you know," she said, "that Life is illusion?""

Source: Tales of Three Hemispheres, A Shop In Go-By Street

"I hope that when London is clean passed away and the defeated fields come back again, like an exiled people returning after a war, they may find some beautiful thing to remind them of it all; because we have loved a little that swart old city."

Source: Fifty-One Tales, Roses

"Then the boat from the slow, grey river loomed up to the coast of Dis and the little, silent shade still shivering stepped ashore, and Charon turned the boat to go wearily back to the world. Then the little shadow spoke, that had been a man.

"I am the last," he said.

No one had ever made Charon smile before, no one before had ever made him weep."

Source: Fifty-One Tales, Charon

Source: The Sword of Welleran: And Other Tales of Enchantment, The Sword of Welleran

"The source of all imagination is here in our fields, and Creation is beautiful enough for the furthest flights of the poets. What is called realism only falls far from these flights because it is too meticulously concerned with the detail of material; mere inventories of rocks are not poetry; but all the memories of crags and hills and meadows and woods and sky that lie in a sensitive spirit are materials for poetry, only waiting to be taken out, and to be laid before the eyes of such as care to perceive them."

Source: Patches of Sunlight

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