"He whose first emotion, on the view of……" — Conrad Aiken
"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 show."
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17 Quotes by Conrad Aiken
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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…
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I love you, what star do you live on?
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We are the ghosts of the singing furies .
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The hiss was now becoming a roar - the whole world was a vast moving screen of snow - but…
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The one you love leans forward, smiles, deceives you, Opens a door through which you see dark dreams.
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Music I heard with you was more than music, and bread I broke with you was more than bread. Now…
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Poetry will absorb and transmute, as it always has done, and glorify, all that we can know.
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[At a musical concert:] . . . the music's pure algebra of enchantment.
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For in this walk, this voyage, it is yourself, the profound history of your 'self,' that now as always you…
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MUSIC I heard with you was more than music, And bread I broke with you was more than bread. Now…
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It is moonlight. Alone in the silence I ascend my stairs once more, While waves remote in pale blue starlight…
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Variations: II Green light, from the moon, Pours over the dark blue trees, Green light from the autumn moon Pours…
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Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to…
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Pharmaceutical projects are like fresh fruit - they depreciate if they are not tended to, and they do poorly if…
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All they do is warm their seats for their long tenures and eventually even their seats get dilapidated with the…
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One of the greatest weaknesses in most of us is our lack of faith in ourselves. One of our common…
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We cannot judge fully of men's works by what we see, or what is said and thought of them; for…
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Christian marriage is marked by discipline and self-denial...C hristianity does not therefore depreciate marriage, it sanctifies it.
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The concepts "beyond" and "real world" were invented in order to depreciate the only world that exists-in order that no…
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