Clark Ashton Smith Quotes

“Upon the delicate chin you turned
Venus had set her cloven sign.
Like embers seen through darkest wine
Your unextinguished tresses burned.”
― Clark Ashton Smith

“And it irritated me beyond all measure that a thought so enormous and ludicrous should return when my logic had dismissed it.”
― Clark Ashton Smith

“The gray mists and the grayer houses were full of the menace of memory: they were like traitorous tombs from which the cadavers of dead hours poured forth to assail me with envenomed fangs and talons.”
― Clark Ashton Smith