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“Bow down, I am the emperor of dreams.”

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Clark Ashton Smith

Zdroj: The Last Oblivion: Best Fantastic Poetry of Clark Ashton Smith

“All human thought, all science, all religion, is the holding of a candle to the night of the universe.”

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Clark Ashton Smith

Quoted in The Black Book of Clark Ashton Smith (1979)

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

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Quoted in The Black Book of Clark Ashton Smith (1979)

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

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"Schizoid Creator" (1953)

“Bow down: I am the emperor of dreams;
I crown me with the million-colored sun
Of secret worlds incredible, and take
Their trailing skies for vestment when I soar,
Throned on the mounting zenith, and illume
The spaceward-flown horizons infinite.”

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Opening lines of "The Hashish Eater; or, the Apocalypse of Evil" (1920)