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George Sterling was an American poet and playwright based in California who, during his lifetime, was celebrated on the Pacific coast as one of the great American poets, although he never gained equivalent success in the rest of the United States.

✵ 1. December 1869 – 17. November 1926
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Famous George Sterling Quotes

“A prison becomes a home when you have the key.”

George Sterling

“And starward drifts the stricken world,
Lone in unalterable gloom
Dead, with a universe for tomb,
Dark, and to vaster darkness whirled.
(“The Testimony of the Suns”)”

George Sterling

Source: The Thirst of Satan: Poems of Fantasy and Terror

“Within its gates I heard the sound
Of winds in cypress caverns caught
Of huddling tress that moaned, and sought
To whisper what their roots had found.
(“A Dream of Fear”)”

George Sterling

Source: The Thirst of Satan: Poems of Fantasy and Terror

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