31 Quotes by Clark Ashton Smith

To destroy wonder and mystery, is to destroy the only elements that make existence tolerable.

The torture-wheel shall serve him even as these horses from Hell have served my blood-red lilies of Sotar and my vein-colored irises of Naat and my orchids from Uccastrog which were purple as the bruises of love.

I was with the first Venusian expedition, under the leadership of Admiral Carfax, in 1977.

Lunatics with a speculative bent can sometimes stumble overly close to certain guarded cosmic secrets.