
“They saw a Dream of Loveliness descending from the train.”
The Masher.
Source: Star Maker (1937), Chapter XVI: Epilogue: Back to Earth (p. 187)
“They saw a Dream of Loveliness descending from the train.”
The Masher.
“The guns are turning away from Europe and Russia and Iran and Iraq and they're turning to us.”
1990s, Prison interviews and interrogations (1995)
The island of Formosa, past and present: History, people, resources, and commercial prospects. Tea, camphor, sugar, gold, coal, sulphur, economical plants, and other productions, 1903, James Wheeler Davidson, Macmillan & co., LONDON AND NEW YORK, 37, Dec. 20 2011 http://books.google.com/books?id=QNMTAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q=descend%20none%20other&f=false, (STANFORD LIBRARIES KELLY & WALSH, LD. YOKOHAMA, SHANGHAI, HONGKONG, AND SINGAPORE "JAPAN GAZETTE" PRESS, Yokohama)
“I'm descended from a long line of preachers and policemen.”
High Times interview (2002)
Context: I'm descended from a long line of preachers and policemen. Now, it's common knowledge that cops are congenital liars, and evangelists spend their lives telling fantastic tales in such a way as to convince otherwise rational people that they're factual. So, I guess I come by my narrative inclinations naturally. Moreover, I grew up in the rural South, where, although television has been steadily destroying it, there has always existed a love of colorful verbiage.
“As the sun came up, we/saw the leaves peer out, shivering.’ ( Letter from the Hills )”
St Cyril Road and Other Poems (2005)
“The seraphs descend from heaven, in the solitudes of meditation, in the stillness of prayer.”
I. SPIRIT, 10. Solitude
Orphic Sayings
Context: Solitude is Wisdom’s school. Attend then the lessons of your own soul; become a pupil of the wise God within you, for by his tuitions alone shall you grow into the knowledge and stature of the deities. The seraphs descend from heaven, in the solitudes of meditation, in the stillness of prayer.
“Russia was a slave in Europe but would be a master in Asia.”
As quoted in "Dilemmas of Empire 1850-1918: Power, Territory, Identity" by Dominic Livien in Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 34, No.2 (April 1999), pp. 180
"Pacific Coast Highway"
Song lyrics, Nobody's Daughter (2010)
“While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats.”