Conrad Aiken Quotes

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• All lovely things will have an ending, all lovely things will fade and die; and youth, that's now so bravely spending, Will beg a penny…
• I love you, what star do you live on?
• We are the ghosts of the singing furies .
• The hiss was now becoming a roar - the whole world was a vast moving screen of snow - but even now it said peace,…
• The one you love leans forward, smiles, deceives you, Opens a door through which you see dark dreams.
• Music I heard with you was more than music, and bread I broke with you was more than bread. Now that I am without you,…
• Poetry will absorb and transmute, as it always has done, and glorify, all that we can know.
• [At a musical concert:] . . . the music's pure algebra of enchantment.
• For in this walk, this voyage, it is yourself, the profound history of your 'self,' that now as always you encounter.
• He whose first emotion, on the view of an excellent work, is to undervalue or depreciate it, will never have one of his own to…
• MUSIC I heard with you was more than music, And bread I broke with you was more than bread. Now that I am without you,…
• It is moonlight. Alone in the silence I ascend my stairs once more, While waves remote in pale blue starlight Crash on a white sand…
• Variations: II Green light, from the moon, Pours over the dark blue trees, Green light from the autumn moon Pours on the grass ... Green…
• It's time to make love, douse the glim; The fireflies twinkle and dim; The stars lean together Like birds of a feather, And the loin…
• Death is never an ending, death is a change; Death is beautiful, for death is strange; Death is one dream out of another flowing.
• Separate we come, and separate we go, And this be it known, is all that we know.
• This is the shape of the tree, And the flower and the leaf, and the three pale beautiful pilgrims: This is what you are to…

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