“He was Death, and he'd ridden in on a pale horse…”
Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist
Source: Invincible
“At my door the Pale Horse stands
To carry me to unknown lands.”
— John Hay
"The Stirrup Cup", Pike County Ballads and Other Pieces (1873).
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and there are things unknown
and in between are the doors.”
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Variant: There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.
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“Like you, an alien in a land unknown,
I learn to pity woes so like my own.”
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“There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.”
Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) English writer
Aldous Huxley, using the term "the doors of perception" which originated with William Blake in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. It is sometimes credited to Morrison because he cited it in interviews as the inspiration for the name The Doors and without always crediting Huxley as the source.
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Thomas Hardy book Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Phase the Third: The Rally, ch. XX
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“In my childhood our neighbor had horses, I was letting him kiss me to let me ride the horse.”
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