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Clark Ashton Smith was an American poet known for his surrealistic and Gothic style of poetry. His works often explore themes of mystery, horror, and the cosmic unknown, and have been beloved by readers.

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All Has Beens Horror Madness Memories Alien Aurora Behinds Betray Bleak Blind

Famous Clark Ashton Smith Quotes

“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. Unnamable things have come to us in alien horror and will come again.”

Space Horror Madness Alien Lovecraftian

Author:Clark Ashton Smith

“Must beauty blossom, rooted in decay, And night devour its flaming hues alway?”

Poetry Gothic Horror

Book:The Dark Eidolon and Other Fantasies

Source: The Dark Eidolon and Other Fantasies

“I have seldom been able to resist the allurement of a bookstore, particularly one that is well supplied with rare and exotic items.”

Books

Book:The Hunters from Beyond

Source: The Hunters from Beyond

“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.”

Soul Light Death Fall Memories Behinds Vision Forever Mountain Mercy Blind Enormous Height Slips Betray Glances Bleak Rendering Climbers

Author:Clark Ashton Smith

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

Has Beens Real Impossible Happenings Charm

Author:Clark Ashton Smith

“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.”

Earth Night Simple Sun Rich Growing Fields Planets Flower Green Plant Dawn Twilight Rooted Worldly Orange Serpent Rubies Jade Aurora Swaying Plants And Flowers

Book:The Demon of the Flower

Source: The Demon of the Flower

“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.”

World Humans Long Has Beens Memories Hair Horror Devil Madness Intellect Meant To Be Hideous Breadth Seething

Author:Clark Ashton Smith

“Bow down, I am the emperor of dreams.”

Dream Bows Emperor

Book:The Miscellaneous Writings of Clark Ashton Smith

Source: The Miscellaneous Writings of Clark Ashton Smith

About the Author

Born: January 13, 1893
Died: August 14, 1961
Known for: Poet
Quotes: 8

Books & Sources

The Dark Eidolon and Other FantasiesRelated source material

The Demon of the FlowerRelated source material

The Hunters from BeyondRelated source material

The Miscellaneous Writings of Clark Ashton SmithRelated source material

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