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H. P. Lovecraft
H. P. Lovecraft
American Novelist
Born: Aug 20, 1890
Died: Mar 15, 1937
Any Life Man Me Will World
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I have no illusions concerning the precarious status of my tales and do not expect to become a serious competitor of my favorite weird authors. H. P. Lovecraft
Become Competitor Favorite Status Weird Tales Concerning Precarious Expect Authors Serious Illusions
To me, there is nothing but puerility in a tale in which the human form - and local human passions and conditions and standards - are depicted as native to other worlds and universes. H. P. Lovecraft
Me Nothing Other Worlds Local Tale Passions Conditions Human Native Depicted Form Which Human Form Standards Universes
I have concluded that Literature is no proper pursuit for a gentleman and that Writing ought never to be consider'd but as an elegant Accomplishment to be indulg'd in with infrequency and Discrimination. H. P. Lovecraft
Writing Gentleman Ought Proper Pursuit Never Concluded Accomplishment Discrimination Literature Elegant
Man's respect for the imponderables varies according to his mental constitution and environment. Through certain modes of thought and training, it can be elevated tremendously, yet there is always a limit. H. P. Lovecraft
Man Respect Constitution Training Thought Tremendously Mental Varies Through Environment Limit Always His According Modes Certain Elevated
That metre itself forms an essential part of all true poetry is a principle which not even the assertions of an Aristotle or the pronouncements of a Plato can disestablish. H. P. Lovecraft
Poetry Part True Aristotle Principle Itself Essential Essential Part Which Forms Even Plato
There be those who say that things and places have souls, and there be those who say they have not; I dare not say, myself, but I will tell of The Street. H. P. Lovecraft
Myself Will Say Those Dare Tell Souls Places Who Street Things
The 'punch' of a truly weird tale is simply some violation or transcending of fixed cosmic law - an imaginative escape from palling reality - hence, phenomena rather than persons are the logical 'heroes.' H. P. Lovecraft
Reality Logical Law Heroes Punch Some Cosmic Rather Simply Weird Tale Truly Escape Than Fixed Transcending Persons Hence Violation Phenomena Imaginative
We should perceive that man's period of historical existence, a period so short that his physical constitution has not been altered in the slightest degree, is insufficient to allow of any considerable mental change. H. P. Lovecraft
Man Change Constitution Degree Considerable Slightest Physical Perceive Mental Allow Period Altered Insufficient Been His Existence Historical Any Short Should
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