Book Quote by Conrad Aiken

It is moonlight. Alone in the silence I ascend my stairs once more, While waves remote in pale blue starlight Crash on a white…

— Conrad Aiken

The truth--a hideous spectacle!

— Conrad Aiken

“It was gentler here, softer, its seethe the quietest of whispers, as if, in deference to a drawing room, it had quite deliberately put…

— Conrad Aiken

One cricket said to another - come, let us be ridiculous, and say love! love love love love love let us be absurd, woman,…

— Conrad Aiken

“And the mist of snow, as he had foreseen, was still on it - a ghost of snow falling in the bright sunlight, softly…

— Conrad Aiken

I think it's very useful to be insulated from your surrounds, because it gives you your inviolate privacy, without pressures, so that you can…

— Conrad Aiken

Death is one dream out of another flowing.

— Conrad Aiken

The wind shrieks, the wind grieves; It dashes the leaves on walls, it whirls then again; And the enormous sleeper vaguely and stupidly dreams…

— Conrad Aiken

Death is never an ending, death is a change; Death is beautiful, for death is strange; Death is one dream out of another flowing.

— Conrad Aiken

As poetry is the highest speech of man, it can not only accept and contain, but in the end express best everything in the…

— Conrad Aiken

Youth yearns to youth, full blood loves full blood only.

— Conrad Aiken

One is least sure of one's self, sometimes, when one is most positive.

— Conrad Aiken