Phantoms

Famous quotes containing the word phantoms:

“How cold the vacancy
When the phantoms are gone and the shaken realist
First sees reality. The mortal no
Has its emptiness and tragic expirations.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

“Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep—
He hath awakened from the dream of life—
‘Tis we, who lost in stormy visions, keep
With phantoms an unprofitable strife.”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)

“In the towns I am tracked by phantoms having weird detective ways—”
—Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)