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The Autobiography of Arthur Machen: "Far Off Things" and "Things Near and Far" QUOTES

The Autobiography of Arthur Machen: "Far Off Things" and "Things Near and Far" QUOTES

1 " Happiness, said De Quincey, on his discovery of the paradise that he thought he had found in opium, could be sent down by the mail-coach; more truly I could announce my discovery that delight could be contained in small octavos and small type, in a bookshelf three feet long. "

― Arthur Machen , The Autobiography of Arthur Machen: "Far Off Things" and "Things Near and Far"

2 " The arts, then, are man’s difference, that which makes him to be what he is; and when he speaks through them he is using the utterance which is proper to him, as man. For, if we once set aside the “does it pay” nonsense, which is evidently nonsense and pestilent nonsense at that, we come clearly and freely to the truth that man is concerned with beauty, and with the ecstasy or rapture that proceeds from the creation of beauty and from the contemplation of it. "

― Arthur Machen , The Autobiography of Arthur Machen: "Far Off Things" and "Things Near and Far"