Robert E. Howard Quotes, Song Quotes, Sea Quotes

Coming, as I do, from mountain folk on one side and sea followers on the other, there are few old songs of the hills or the sea with which I am not familiar.

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Man is still an ape in that he forgets what is not ever before his eyes.

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Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.

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The sea-road is good for wanderers and landless men. There is quenching of thirst on the grey paths of the winds, and the flying clouds to still the sting of lost dreams.

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No man can be convinced when he will not.

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But not all men seek rest and peace; some are born with the spirit of the storm in their blood.

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For man's only weapon is courage that flinches not from the gates of Hell itself, and against such not even the legions of Hell can stand.

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Over the souls of men spread the condor wings of colossal monsters and all manner of evil things prey upon the heart and soul and body of Man. Yet it may be in some far day the shadows shall fade and the Prince of Darkness be chained forever in his hell. And till then mankind can but stand up stoutly to the monsters in his own heart and without, and with the aid of God he may yet triumph.

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But whatever my failure, I have this thing to remember - that I was a pioneer in my profession, just as my grandfathers were in theirs, in that I was the first man in this section to earn his living as a writer.

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Barbarianism is the natural state of mankind. Civilization is unnatural. It is the whim of circumstance. And barbarianism must ultimately triumph

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There comes, even to kings, the time of great weariness. Then the gold of the throne is brass, the silk of the palace becomes drab. The gems in the diadem and upon the fingers of the women sparkle drearily like the ice of white seas; the speech of men is as the empty rattle of a jester's bell and the feel comes of things unreal; even the sun is copper in the sky and the breath of the green ocean is no longer fresh.

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Musings The little poets sing of little things: Hope, cheer, and faith, small queens and puppet kings; Lovers who kissed and then were made as one, And modest flowers waving in the sun. The mighty poets write in blood and tears And agony that, flame-like, bites and sears. They reach their mad blind hands into the night, To plumb abysses dead to human sight; To drag from gulfs where lunacy lies curled, Mad, monstrous nightmare shapes to blast the world. [click on the thumbnail by Jack "King" Kirby]

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What is death but a traversing of eternities and a crossing of cosmic oceans?

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How can I wear the harness of toil And sweat at the daily round, While in my soul forever The drums of Pictdom sound?

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Animals are neither gods nor fiends, but men in their way without the lust and greed of man.

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The poem you sent me was as fiery and virile as anything you've ever written - or anybody else, for that matter. Especially the second part went to my brain like the flaming liquor of insanity. No one else besides Jack London has the power to move me just that way.

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A woman in such an emotional tempest is as perilous as a blind cobra to any about her.

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While we may open the books of the past, we may but grant flying glances of the future, through the mist that veils it.

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Aye, you white dog, you are like all your race; but to a black man gold can never pay for blood.

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When a nation forgets her skill in war, when her religion becomes a mockery, when the whole nation becomes a nation of money-grabbers, then the wild tribes, the barbarians drive in... Who will our invaders be? From whence will they come?

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