Quotes by Arthur Machen

"I dream in fire but work in clay."
Arthur Machen
"silence is not weakness and decency is not pride"
Arthur Machen
"We both wondered whether these contradictions that one can't avoid if one begins to think of time and space may not really be proofs that the whole of life is a dream, and the moon and stars bits of nightmare."
Arthur Machen
Arthur Machen

Arthur Machen (/ˈmækən/ or /ˈmæxən/; 3 March 1863 – 15 December 1947) was the pen-name of Arthur Llewellyn Jones, a Welsh author and mystic of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He is best known ...