{"author":"George Sterling","author_id":"George+Sterling","total_quotes":14,"quotes":[{"text":"Within its gates I heard the soundOf winds in cypress caverns caughtOf huddling tress that moaned, and soughtTo whisper what their roots had found.(“A Dream of Fear”).","author":"George Sterling","tags":["cemetery","graveyard","horror","scary","supernatural","trees"],"id":15809,"author_id":"George+Sterling"},{"text":"O Space and Time and stars at strife,How dreadful your infinity!Shrined by your termless trinity,How strange, how terrible, is life!(“The Testimony of the Suns”).","author":"George Sterling","tags":["infinity","life","space","time"],"id":40133,"author_id":"George+Sterling"},{"text":"Be sure that head and heart were laidIn wisdom down, content to die.Be sure he faced the Starless SkyUnduped, unmurmuring, unafraid.(“The Passing of Bierce”).","author":"George Sterling","tags":["ambrose-bierce","bierce","death"],"id":46383,"author_id":"George+Sterling"},{"text":"What silence rules the ghostly hoursThat guard the close of human sleep!(“The Testimony of the Suns”).","author":"George Sterling","tags":["apocalypse","armageddon","silence","sleep"],"id":65668,"author_id":"George+Sterling"},{"text":"As a breath on glass, -As witch-fires that burn,The gods and monsters pass,Are dust, and return.(“The Face of the Skies”).","author":"George Sterling","tags":["gods","history","monsters","time"],"id":96206,"author_id":"George+Sterling"},{"text":"Where got she her sullen mouthAnd where her swaying form?Would she live on eggs and applesWhen the blood of men is warm?(“The Young Witch”).","author":"George Sterling","tags":["blood","horror","supernatural","witch"],"id":116712,"author_id":"George+Sterling"},{"text":"The pathway traced with blood and tears,and dust of all our father's dead,Whose backward footsteps, wandering, red,Fade to the mist of nameless years.(“The Testimony of the Suns”).","author":"George Sterling","tags":["history","past","time"],"id":146425,"author_id":"George+Sterling"},{"text":"And fragile is thy tenure of this worldStill haunted by the monstrous ghost of God.('To Science').","author":"George Sterling","tags":["atheism","god","religion","science"],"id":181787,"author_id":"George+Sterling"},{"text":"A little while, their hunger unfulfilled,The mothlike worlds flit 'round the guttering sun.('Ephemera').","author":"George Sterling","tags":["apocalypse","armageddon","history","time","transience"],"id":186378,"author_id":"George+Sterling"},{"text":"The candle glimmers but an hour. The nightLooms in its ancient hunger. Would you knowThe tragedy of human love and need?Gaze on the stars, then on a brother's face!","author":"George Sterling","tags":["death","time","transiency"],"id":197489,"author_id":"George+Sterling"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":14,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}