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> [My heart has become as hard as a city street, the horses trample upon it, it sings like iron, all day long and all night long they beat, they ring like the hooves of time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/conrad-aiken/my-heart-has-become-as-hard-as-a-city-street-the-horses-trample-upon/)

[Conrad Aiken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/conrad-aiken/)

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## More by Conrad Aiken

> [It is moonlight. Alone in the silence I ascend my stairs once more, While waves remote in pale blue starlight Crash on a white…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/conrad-aiken/it-is-moonlight-alone-in-the-silence-i-ascend-my-stairs-once-more/)

[Conrad Aiken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/conrad-aiken/)

> [The truth--a hideous spectacle!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/conrad-aiken/the-truth-a-hideous-spectacle/)

[Conrad Aiken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/conrad-aiken/)

> [“It was gentler here, softer, its seethe the quietest of whispers, as if, in deference to a drawing room, it had quite deliberately put…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/conrad-aiken/it-was-gentler-here-softer-its-seethe-the-quietest-of-whispers-as-if/)

[Conrad Aiken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/conrad-aiken/)

> [One cricket said to another - come, let us be ridiculous, and say love! love love love love love let us be absurd, woman,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/conrad-aiken/one-cricket-said-to-another-come-let-us-be-ridiculous-and-say-love/)

[Conrad Aiken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/conrad-aiken/)

> [I began by doing book reviews on the typewriter and then went over to short stories on the machine, meanwhile sticking to pencil for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/conrad-aiken/i-began-by-doing-book-reviews-on-the-typewriter-and-then-went-over-to/)

[Conrad Aiken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/conrad-aiken/)

> [“And the mist of snow, as he had foreseen, was still on it - a ghost of snow falling in the bright sunlight, softly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/conrad-aiken/and-the-mist-of-snow-as-he-had-foreseen-was-still-on-it-a-ghost-of/)

[Conrad Aiken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/conrad-aiken/)

> [I think it's very useful to be insulated from your surrounds, because it gives you your inviolate privacy, without pressures, so that you can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/conrad-aiken/i-think-it-s-very-useful-to-be-insulated-from-your-surrounds-because/)

[Conrad Aiken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/conrad-aiken/)

> [Death is one dream out of another flowing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/conrad-aiken/death-is-one-dream-out-of-another-flowing/)

[Conrad Aiken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/conrad-aiken/)

> [The wind shrieks, the wind grieves; It dashes the leaves on walls, it whirls then again; And the enormous sleeper vaguely and stupidly dreams…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/conrad-aiken/the-wind-shrieks-the-wind-grieves-it-dashes-the-leaves-on-walls-it/)

[Conrad Aiken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/conrad-aiken/)

> [Death is never an ending, death is a change; Death is beautiful, for death is strange; Death is one dream out of another flowing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/conrad-aiken/death-is-never-an-ending-death-is-a-change-death-is-beautiful-for/)

[Conrad Aiken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/conrad-aiken/)

> [As poetry is the highest speech of man, it can not only accept and contain, but in the end express best everything in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/conrad-aiken/as-poetry-is-the-highest-speech-of-man-it-can-not-only-accept-and/)

[Conrad Aiken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/conrad-aiken/)

> [Youth yearns to youth, full blood loves full blood only.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/conrad-aiken/youth-yearns-to-youth-full-blood-loves-full-blood-only/)

[Conrad Aiken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/conrad-aiken/)

> [One is least sure of one's self, sometimes, when one is most positive.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/conrad-aiken/one-is-least-sure-of-one-s-self-sometimes-when-one-is-most-positive/)

[Conrad Aiken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/conrad-aiken/)

> [For in this walk, this voyage, it is yourself, the profound history of your 'self,' that now as always you encounter.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/conrad-aiken/for-in-this-walk-this-voyage-it-is-yourself-the-profound-history-of/)

[Conrad Aiken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/conrad-aiken/)

> [Life is the thing--the song of life-- The eager plow, the thirsty knife!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/conrad-aiken/life-is-the-thing-the-song-of-life-the-eager-plow-the-thirsty-knife/)

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