Category: The King in Yellow

“Et tout les jours passés dans la tristesse
Nous sont comptés comme des jours heureux!”

The street is not fashionable, neither is it shabby. It is a pariah among streets–a street without a Quarter. It is generally understood to lie … Read the rest

“Be of Good Cheer, the Sullen Month will die,
And a young Moon requite us by and by:
Look how the Old one, meagre, bent, and wan
With age and Fast, is fainting from the sky.”

The room was already … Read the rest

“Ferme tes yeux à demi,
Croise tes bras sur ton sein,
Et de ton coeur endormi
Chasse à jamais tout dessein.”

“Je chante la nature,
Les étoiles du soir, les larmes du matin,
Les couchers de soleil à l’horizon lointain,… Read the rest

“If but the Vine and Love Abjuring Band
Are in the Prophets’ Paradise to stand,
Alack, I doubt the Prophets’ Paradise,
Were empty as the hollow of one’s hand.”

He smiled, saying, “Seek her throughout the world.”

I said, “Why … Read the rest

“Mais je croy que je
Suis descendu on puiz
Ténébreux onquel disoit
Heraclytus estre Vereté cachée.”

“There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not:
“The way of an eagle in the air; … Read the rest

“Let the red dawn surmise
What we shall do,
When this blue starlight dies
And all is through.”

There are so many things which are impossible to explain! Why should certain chords in music make me think of the brown … Read the rest

“Oh, thou who burn’st in heart for those who burn
In Hell, whose fires thyself shall feed in turn;
How long be crying–‘Mercy on them.’ God!
Why, who art thou to teach and He to learn?”

In the Church of … Read the rest

CAMILLA: You, sir, should unmask.
STRANGER: Indeed?
CASSILDA: Indeed it’s time. We all have laid aside disguise but you.
STRANGER: I wear no mask.
CAMILLA: (Terrified, aside to Cassilda.) No mask? No mask!

The King in Yellow, Act I, Scene … Read the rest

“Ne raillons pas les fous; leur folie dure plus longtemps que la nôtre…. Voila toute la différence.”

(Do not scoff crazy; their madness lasts longer than ours …. Here is the difference.)

Toward the end of the year … Read the rest

“For let Philosopher and Doctor preach
Of what they will and what they will not,–each
Is but one link in an eternal chain
That none can slip nor break nor over-reach.”

“Crimson nor yellow roses nor
The savour of the … Read the rest