Quotes by Mervyn Peake

Mervyn Peake

[Peake’s books] are actual additions to life; they give, like certain rare dreams, sensations we never had before, and enlarge our conception of the range of possible experience.

Book

Dream

Giving

Each day I live in a glass room unless I break it with the thrusting of my senses and pass through the splintered walls to the great landscape.

Glasses

Great Day

Wall

Gormenghast, that is, the main massing of the original stone, taken by itself would have displayed a certain ponderous architectural quality were it possible to have ignored the circumfusion of those mean dwellings that swarmed like an epidemic around it s Outer Walls.

Mean

Taken

Wall

He had no longer any need for home, for he carried his Gormenghast within him. All that he sought was jostling within himself. He had grown up. What a boy had set out to seek a man had found, found by the act of living.

Boys

Home

Men

His was not the hatred that arises suddenly like a storm and as suddenly abates. It was, once the initial shock of anger and pain was over, a calculated thing that grew in a bloodless way.

Hatred

Pain

Storm

I am too rich already, for my eyes Mint gold, while my heart cries.

Eye

Gold

Rich

I want a lot to eat, I’m going to think today.

Thinking

Today

Want

Lingering is so very lonely when one lingers all alone.

All Alone

Lingering

Lonely

Mervyn Peake is a finer poet than Edgar Allan Poe, and he is therefore able to maintain his world of fantasy brilliantly through three novels. It (Gormenghast trilogy) is a very, very great work … a classic of our age.

Age

Three

World

Oh how I hate people!

Hate

I Hate People

People

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Air

All Alone

Beats

Black

Book

Boys

Break

Cat

Circles

Dark

Doors

Dream

Earth

Eye

Generations

Giving

Glasses

Gold

Great Day

Hands

Hate

Hatred

Heart

Home

I Hate People

Ice

Ignorance

Iron

Lakes

Laughter

Light

Lingering

Lonely

Mean

Men

Moon

Morning

My Own

Pain

People

Printed Word

Quietness

Rich

Scythes

Silence

Sound

Storm

Taken

Thinking

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Quotes by Mervyn Peake

Mervyn Peake

[Peake’s books] are actual additions to life; they give, like certain rare dreams, sensations we never had before, and enlarge our conception of the range of possible experience.

Each day I live in a glass room unless I break it with the thrusting of my senses and pass through the splintered walls to the great landscape.

Gormenghast, that is, the main massing of the original stone, taken by itself would have displayed a certain ponderous architectural quality were it possible to have ignored the circumfusion of those mean dwellings that swarmed like an epidemic around it s Outer Walls.

He had no longer any need for home, for he carried his Gormenghast within him. All that he sought was jostling within himself. He had grown up. What a boy had set out to seek a man had found, found by the act of living.

His was not the hatred that arises suddenly like a storm and as suddenly abates. It was, once the initial shock of anger and pain was over, a calculated thing that grew in a bloodless way.

I am too rich already, for my eyes Mint gold, while my heart cries.

I want a lot to eat, I’m going to think today.

Lingering is so very lonely when one lingers all alone.

Mervyn Peake is a finer poet than Edgar Allan Poe, and he is therefore able to maintain his world of fantasy brilliantly through three novels. It (Gormenghast trilogy) is a very, very great work … a classic of our age.

Oh how I hate people!

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