"MUSIC I heard with you was more than……" — Conrad Aiken
"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, all is desolate, All that was once so beautiful is dead. Your hands once touched this table and this silver,And I have seen your fingers hold this glass. These things do not remember you, beloved: And yet your touch upon them will not pass. For it was in my heart you moved among them,And blessed them with your hands and with your eyes.And in my heart they will remember always: They knew you once, O beautiful and wise!"
—
Conrad Aiken
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
17 Quotes by Conrad Aiken
Conrad Aiken has 17 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
All lovely things will have an ending, all lovely things will fade and die; and youth, that's now so bravely…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
He whose first emotion, on the view of an excellent work, is to undervalue or depreciate it, will never have…
-
It is moonlight. Alone in the silence I ascend my stairs once more, While waves remote in pale blue starlight…
-
Variations: II Green light, from the moon, Pours over the dark blue trees, Green light from the autumn moon Pours…
See all 17 quotes by Conrad Aiken »
More All Quotes
This quote is filed under All Quotes,
one of 128,558 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally…
— Hannah Arendt
-
No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
— Hannah Arendt
-
The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
— Hannah Arendt
-
The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes…
— Hannah Arendt
-
Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of…
— Hannah Arendt
-
We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and…
— Hannah Arendt
-
I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is…
— Pietro Aretino
-
We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
-
The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela,…
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
-
As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we…
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
-
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
— Aristophanes
-
A friend to all is a friend to none.
— Aristotle
See all 128,558 All Quotes »