Clark Ashton Smith: 5 Quotes by the Poet | QuoteForever

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Poet
1893 - 1961
5 quotes

Clark Ashton Smith, a poet (1893 - 1961), is quoted 5 times on QuoteForever. The subjects that come up most often are Memories, Dream, Bows and Emperor.

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Clark Ashton Smith / Poet

Bow down, I am the emperor of dreams.

Clark Ashton Smith / Poet

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

Clark Ashton Smith / Poet

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.

Clark Ashton Smith / Poet

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.

Clark Ashton Smith / Poet

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.

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