{"author":"Lord Dunsany","author_id":"Lord+Dunsany","total_quotes":24,"quotes":[{"text":"And then he went in the evening up to the nursery and told the boy how his mother was gone for a while to Elfland, to her father's palace (which may only be told of in song). And, unheeding any words of Orion then, he held on with the brief tale that he had come to tell, and told how Elfland was gone.'But that cannot be,' said Orion, 'for I hear the horns of Elfland every day.'You can hear them?' Alveric said.And the boy replied, 'I hear them blowing at evening.","author":"Lord Dunsany","tags":["elfland","evening","horns","loss"],"id":7952,"author_id":"Lord+Dunsany"},{"text":"Nobody can tell you about that sword all that there is to be told of it; for those that know of those paths of Space on which its metals once floated, till Earth caught them one by one as she sailed past on her orbit, have little time to waste on such things as magic and so cannot tell you how the sword was made, and those who know whence poetry is, and the need that man has for song, or know any one of the fifty branches of magic, have little time to waste on such things as science, and so cannot tell you whence its ingredients came. Enough that it was once beyond our Earth and was now here amongst our mundane stones; that it was once but as those stones, and now had something in it such as soft music has; let those that can define it.","author":"Lord Dunsany","tags":["magic","music","poetry","science","swords"],"id":49829,"author_id":"Lord+Dunsany"},{"text":"Then on the River I saw the dream-built ship of the god Yoharneth-Lehai, whose great prow lifted grey into the air above the River of Silence. Her timbers were olden dreams dreamed long ago, and poets' fancies made her tall, straight masts, and her rigging was wrought out of the people's hopes. Upon her deck were rowers with dream-made oars, and the rowers were the people of men's fancies, and princes of old story and people who had died, and people who had never been.","author":"Lord Dunsany","tags":["dreams","mythology","ships"],"id":57035,"author_id":"Lord+Dunsany"},{"text":"There passed a child of four, a small girl on a footpath over the fields, going home in the evening to Erl. They looked at each other with round eyes.'Hullo,' said the child.'Hullo, child of men,' said the troll.. . . 'What are you?' said the child.'A troll of Elfland,' answered the troll. 'So I thought,' said the child.'Where are you going, child of men?' the troll asked.'To the houses,' the child replied.'We don't want to go there,' said the troll.'N-no,' said the child.'Come to Elfland,' the troll said.The child thought for a while. Other children had gone, and the elves always sent a changeling in their place, so that nobody quite missed them and nobody really knew. She thought awhile of the wonder and wildness of Elfland, and then of her own house.'N-no,' said the child.'Why not?' said the troll.'Mother made a jam roll this morning,' said the child. And she walked on gravely home. Had it not been for that chance jam roll she had gone to Elfland.'Jam!' said the troll contemptuously and thought of the tarns of Elfland, the great lily-leaves lying flat upon their solemn waters, the huge blue lilies towering into the elf-light above the green deep tarns: for jam this child had forsaken them!","author":"Lord Dunsany","tags":["children","choices","elfland"],"id":138883,"author_id":"Lord+Dunsany"},{"text":"The fear of dogs is deep and universal amongst all that are less than Man.","author":"Lord Dunsany","tags":["dogs","fear-of-dogs","lord-dunsany","the-king-of-elfland-s-daughter"],"id":150242,"author_id":"Lord+Dunsany"},{"text":"It is very seldom that the same man knows much of science  and about the things that were known before science came.","author":"Lord Dunsany","tags":["science","technology"],"id":155991,"author_id":"Lord+Dunsany"},{"text":"I have lived to see that being seventeen is no protection against becoming seventy, but to know this needs the experience of a lifetime, for no imagination copes with it.","author":"Lord Dunsany","tags":["age","experience","getting-older","youth"],"id":176963,"author_id":"Lord+Dunsany"},{"text":"The years are going by us like huge birds, whom Doom and Destiny and the schemes of God have frightened up out of some old gray marsh.","author":"Lord Dunsany","tags":["aging","time","years"],"id":188596,"author_id":"Lord+Dunsany"},{"text":"Then I perceived, what I had never thought, that all these staring houses were not alike, but different one from another, because they held different dreams.","author":"Lord Dunsany","tags":["dreams"],"id":211134,"author_id":"Lord+Dunsany"},{"text":"And Jabim is the Lord of broken things, who sitteth behind the house to lament the things that are cast away. And there he sitteth lamenting the broken things until the worlds be ended, or until someone cometh to mend the broken things. Or sometimes he sitteth by the river's edge to lament the forgotten things that drift upon it.A kindly god is Jabim, whose heart is sore if anything be lost.","author":"Lord Dunsany","tags":["broken-things","fantasy","gods","lament"],"id":309504,"author_id":"Lord+Dunsany"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":24,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}