Mervyn Peake

“I, while the gods laugh, the world's vortex am; Maelström of passions in that hidden sea Whose waves of all-time lap the coasts of me; And in small compass the dark waters cram. - I, While t...”

“But his mind saw nothing of all this. His mind was engaged in a warfare of the gods. His mind paced outwards over no-man's-land, over the fields of the slain, paced to the rhythm of the bloo...”

“For death is life. It is only living that is lifeless.”

“Life is too fleet for onomatopoeia.”

“If seeing her an hour before her last Weak cough into all blackness I could yet Be held by chalk-white walls - The Consumptive. Belsen 1945”

“He saw in happiness the seeds of independence, and in independence the seeds of revolt.”

“It was not often that Flay approved of happiness in others. He saw in happiness the seeds of independence, and in independence the seeds of revolt. But on an occasion such as this it was dif...”

“It was not often that Flay approved of happiness in others.”