The Black Book of Clark Ashton Smith Quotes

“All human thought, all science, all religion, is the holding of a candle to the night of the universe.”
― Clark Ashton Smith, The Black Book of Clark Ashton Smith

“To destroy wonder and mystery, is to destroy the only elements that make existence tolerable.”
― Clark Ashton Smith, The Black Book of Clark Ashton Smith

“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”
― Clark Ashton Smith, The Black Book of Clark Ashton Smith

“Nothing is stupider than the common complaint that poetry lacks "human interest," unless it concerns itself with human emotions, actions, problems and viewpoints. Anything conceivable by the imagination, any speculation ((conception)) ((emergence)) of what may be beyond, above and beneath the mundane sphere, can ((or may,)) possess "human interest," by enlarging the horizons of that interest.”
― Clark Ashton Smith, The Black Book of Clark Ashton Smith