H. P. Lovecraft: The Complete Fiction

we have looked back through the ivory gates into that world of wonder which was ours before we were wise and unhappy.

realms whose mere existence stuns the brain and numbs us with the black extra-cosmic gulfs it throws open before our frenzied eyes.

We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.