Felicia Hemans (1793–1835) English poet
"Tale of the Secret Tribunal" (published 1822), part i, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Source: Red Dragon
Felicia Hemans (1793–1835) English poet
"Tale of the Secret Tribunal" (published 1822), part i, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted.”
Emily Dickinson book The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Variant: Art is a house that tries to be haunted.
Source: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
“Some are haunted by ghosts. I am haunted by stories.”
Gene Wolfe (1931–2019) American science fiction and fantasy writer
The Best of Gene Wolfe (2009), afterword to "Kevin Malone", p. 355
Nonfiction
“All my old friends aren't so friendly
And all my old haunts are now haunting me.”
St. Vincent (musician) (1982) American singer-songwriter
"Laughing with a Mouth of Blood"
Actor (2009)
Context: I traded my plot of land for a plane to anywhere
Oh where did you go.
And I can't see the future but I know it's watching me.
All my old friends aren't so friendly
And all my old haunts are now haunting me.
“Dreams haunted The Riverworld.”
Philip José Farmer (1918–2009) American science fiction writer
First lines.
The Riverworld series, The Dark Design (1977)