Delphi Collected Works of Lord Dunsany (Illustrated) Quotes

“Picture no such ink-pot, my reader, as they sell to-day in shops, the silver no thicker than paper, and perhaps a pattern all over it guaranteed artistic. It was molten silver well wrought, and hollowed for ink. And in the hollow there was the magical fluid, the stuff that rules the world and hinders time; that in which flows the will of a king, to establish his laws for ever; that which gives valleys unto new possessors; that whereby towers are held by their lawful owners; that which, used grimly by the King’s judge, is death; that which, when poets play, is mirth for ever and ever.”
― Lord Dunsany, Delphi Collected Works of Lord Dunsany (Illustrated)