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Lord Dunsany Biography

Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany (/dʌnˈseɪni/; 24 July 1878 – 25 October 1957), was an Anglo-Irish writer and dramatist; his work, mostly in the fantasy genre, was published under the name Lord Dunsany. More than ninety books of his work were published in his lifetime,:29 (I.A.92) and both original work and compilations have continued to appear. Dunsany's oeuvre includes many hundreds of published short stories, as well as plays, novels and essays. He achieved great fame and success with his early short stories and plays, and during the 1910s was considered one of the greatest living writers of the English-speaking world; he is today best known for his 1924 fantasy novel The King of Elfland's Daughter

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It has always struck me that one of the readiest ways of estimating a country's regard for law is to notice what arms the officers of the law are carrying: in England it is little batons, in France swords, in many countries revolvers, and in Russia the police used to have artillery.

Artillery, Countries, Country, Law, Russia, Ways

If one who looked from a tower for a new star, watching for years the same part of the sky, suddenly saw it (quite by chance while thinking of other things), and knew it for the star for which he had hoped, how many millions of men would never care?

Men, Same, Saw, Star, Stars, Thinking

Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities.

Large, Logic, Math, Novelists, Quantities, Taken

Modern poets are bells of lead. They should tinkle melodiously but usually they just klunk.

Bells, Klunk, Modern, Poet, Usually

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.

Alike, Different, Dream, House, Houses

It is very seldom that the same man knows much of science, and about the things that were known before science came.

Came, Knows, Man, Men, Science, Technology

How beautiful are dreams! In dreams the dead may live, even the long dead and the very silent.

Beautiful, Dream, Dreams, Live, Long, Silent

I think that travel comes from some deep urge to see the world, like the urge that brings up a worm in an Irish bog to see the moon when it is full.

Brings, Deep, Moon, Thinking, Travel, Urge

Yet in the blood of man there is a tide, an old sea-current, rather, that is somehow akin to the twilight, which brings him rumours of beauty from however far away, as drift-wood is found at sea from islands not yet discovered; and this spring-tide or current that visits the blood of man comes from the fabulous quarter of his lineage, from the legendary, of old; it takes him out to the woodlands, out to the hills; he listens to ancient song.

Old, Rumours, Song, Spring, Twilight, Visits

Come with me, ladies and gentlemen who are in any wise weary of London: come with me: and those that tire at all of the world we know: for we have new worlds here.

Gentleman, Know, London, Wise, World, Worlds

Bricks without straw are more easily made than imagination without memories.

Bricks, Imagination, Memories, Straw

And at that moment a wind came out of the northwest, and entered the woods and bared the golden branches, and danced over the downs, and led a company of scarlet and golden leaves, that had dreaded this day but danced now it had come; and away with a riot of dancing and glory of colour, high in the light of the sun that had set from the sight of the fields, went wind and leaves together.

Bared, Came, Come, Light, Sight, Wind

Once I found out the secret of the universe. I have forgotten what it was, but I know that the Creator does not take Creation seriously, for I remember that He sat in Space with all His work in front of Him and laughed.

Doe, Found, Remember, Secret, Space, Work

And little he knew of the things that ink may do, how it can mark a dead man's thought for the wonder of later years, and tell of happening that are gone clean away, and be a voice for us out of the dark of time, and save many a fragile thing from the pounding of heavy ages; or carry to us, over the rolling centuries, even a song from lips long dead on forgotten hills.

Away, Dark, Lips, Men, Song, Voice

Contrast is the dramatist's method.

Contrast, Method

And you who sought for magic in your youth but desire it not in your age, know that there is a blindness of spirit which comes from age, more black than the blindness of eye, making a darkness about you across which nothing may be seen, or felt, or known, or in any way apprehended.

Across, Black, Darkness, Eye, Known