The Dark Eidolon and Other Fantasies Quotes

“Must beauty blossom, rooted in decay,
And night devour its flaming hues alway?”
― Clark Ashton Smith, The Dark Eidolon and Other Fantasies

“quinquangular”
― Clark Ashton Smith, The Dark Eidolon and Other Fantasies

“peregrinations”
― Clark Ashton Smith, The Dark Eidolon and Other Fantasies

“The Skeleton: We have wisdom, if you like—a dull and dusty wisdom, and I would give it all for a good draught of Chian wine.4 Perchance ’tis something to know that bodies are made of dust and water, the last of which is evaporable, and the former capable of dissolvement. For this is all our knowledge, in spite of much that is known and spoken of hierophant and philosopher. However, unlike the lore and wisdom of these, it may be contained without discommodation by one skull.”
― Clark Ashton Smith, The Dark Eidolon and Other Fantasies