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Clark Ashton Smith quotes

Ocupation: Poet

Life: January 13, 1893 - August 14, 1961

Birthday: January 13

Death: August 14

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There have been times when only a hair's-breadth has intervened betwixt myself and the seething devil-ridden world of madness; for the hideous knowledge, the horror- blackened memories which I have carried so long, were never meant to be borne by the human intellect.

Topics: Memories, Hair, Long, Seething

quote only the impossible has any real charm the possible has been vulgarized by happening clark ashton smith Quotes

Not as the plants and flowers of Earth, growing peacefully beneath a simple sun, were the blossoms of the planet Lophai. Coiling and uncoiling in double dawns; tossing tumultuously under vast suns of jade green and balas-ruby orange; swaying and weltering in rich twilights, in aurora-curtained nights, they resembled fields of rooted serpents that dance eternally to an other-worldly music.

source: - Clark Ashton Smith (2011). “The Demon of the Flower”, p.5, eStar Books

Topics: Twilight, Flower, Simple, Aurora, Swaying

Bow down, I am the emperor of dreams.

source: - Clark Ashton Smith (2011). “The Miscellaneous Writings of Clark Ashton Smith”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

Topics: Dream, Bows, Emperor

In his bleak mercy, Death forever strips The soul of light and memory, rendering blind Our vision, lest surmounted deeps appal, As when on mountain-heights a glance behind Betrays with knowledge, and the climber slips Down gulfs of fear to some enormous fall.

source: - Clark Ashton Smith, “The Unremembered”

Topics: Death, Memories, Fall

Only the impossible has any real charm; the possible has been vulgarized by happening too often.

Topics: Real, Impossible, Charm

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