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Clark Ashton Smith
8 quotes
“Bow down: I am the emperor of dreams; I crown me with the million-colored sun Of secret worlds incredible, and take Their trailing skies for vestment when I soar, Throned on the mounting zenith, and illume The spaceward-flown horizons infinite.”
Clark Ashton Smith (1893–1961) first seen 1920 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Opening lines of "The Hashish Eater; or, the Apocalypse of Evil" (1920)
“Stern and white as a tomb, older than the memory of the dead, and built by men or devils beyond the recording of myth, is the mansion in which we dwell.”
Clark Ashton Smith (1893–1961) first seen 1931 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in The Return of the Sorcerer: The Best of Clark Ashton Smith (1931)
“But here, in this place of eternal bareness and solitude, it seemed that life could never have been. The stark, eroded stones were things that might have been reared by the toil of the dead, to house the monstrous ghouls and demons of primal desolation.”
Clark Ashton Smith (1893–1961) first seen 1932 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Vaults of Yoh-Vombis" in Weird Tales (1932)
“For thin is the veil betwixt man and the godless deep. The skies are haunted by that which it were madness to know; and strange abominations pass evermore between earth and moon and athwart the galaxies. Unnameable things have come to us in alien horror and will come again. And the evil of the stars is not as the evil of earth.”
Clark Ashton Smith (1893–1961) first seen 1933 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Beast Of Averoigne" in Weird Tales (1933)
“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.”
Clark Ashton Smith (1893–1961) first seen 1944 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lost Worlds (1944)
“Lunatics with a speculative bent can sometimes stumble overly close to certain guarded cosmic secrets.”
Clark Ashton Smith (1893–1961) first seen 1953 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Schizoid Creator" (1953)
“To destroy wonder and mystery, is to destroy the only elements that make existence tolerable.”
Clark Ashton Smith (1893–1961) said by 1961 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in The Black Book of Clark Ashton Smith (1979)
“All human thought, all science, all religion, is the holding of a candle to the night of the universe.”
Clark Ashton Smith (1893–1961) said by 1961 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in The Black Book of Clark Ashton Smith (1979)