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1893–1961 United States
Clark Ashton Smith (January 13, 1893 – August 14, 1961) was an American writer and artist. He achieved early local recognition, largely through the enthusiasm of George Sterling, for traditional verse in the vein of Swinburne.
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Lunatics with a speculative bent can sometimes stumble overly close to certain guarded cosmic secrets.
Schizoid Creator (1953)
All human thought, all science, all religion, is the holding of a candle to the night of the universe.
The Black Book of Clark Ashton Smith (1979)
To destroy wonder and mystery, is to destroy the only elements that make existence tolerable.
The Black Book of Clark Ashton Smith (1979)
Psychoanalysis and dianetics are, on the face of it, both absurd. People are what they are because of causes that go infinitely farther back than infancy of the mother's womb.
The Black Book of Clark Ashton Smith (1979)
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.
The Return of the Sorcerer: The Best of Clark Ashton Smith (1931)
Bow down: I am the emperor of dreams;
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.
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.
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