"Poetry will absorb and transmute, as it always……" — Conrad Aiken
"Poetry will absorb and transmute, as it always has done, and glorify, all that we can know."
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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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[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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He whose first emotion, on the view of an excellent work, is to undervalue or depreciate it, will never have…
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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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All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
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American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.
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It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate.
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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his…
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I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so…
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We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it…
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That's the best thing about writing, when you're in that zone, you're porous, ready to absorb the solution.
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It was stumbling on to really the bible of the blues, you know, and a very powerful drug to be…
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