"We are the ghosts of the singing furies…" — Conrad Aiken
"We are the ghosts of the singing furies ."
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Conrad Aiken
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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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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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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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The furies are at home in the mirror; it is their address. Even the clearest water, if deep enough can…
— R. S. Thomas
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Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
— John Dryden
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Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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A gulf profound as that Serbonian bog Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old, Where armies whole have sunk: the parching…
— John Milton
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It swam crossways in the direction of the Nautilus with great speed, watching us with its enormous staring green eyes.…
— Jules Verne
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In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains.…
— Karl Marx
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United States:. A nation given either to unjustified over-enthusiasms or infantile furies.
— John Ralston Saul
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Unlike most wars, which make rotten fiction in themselves - all plot and no characters, or made-up characters - Vietnam…
— Wilfrid Sheed
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The world is being run by people my age, men my age, with falling-out hair and health worries, and it…
— Margaret Atwood
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George unhinged his jaw and coughed up a little plastic bottle filled with chewable vitamins. "You're kidding," I said. "Are…
— Rick Riordan
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Don't cry." "How can I not?" I asked him. "You just said you loved me." "Well, why else did you…
— Meg Cabot
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Man is certain of nothing but his ability to fail. It is the deepest faith we have, and the unbeliever-…
— Ken Kesey
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