Beauty Quote by Conrad Aiken

“Time is a dream ... a destroying dream; It lays great cities in dust, it fills the seas; It covers the face of beauty, and tumbles walls.”

Conrad Aiken

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Beauty Cities Destroying Dream Dreams Dust Faces Great cities Lays Sea Time Wall

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

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The truth--a hideous spectacle!

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

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

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

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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…

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Death is one dream out of another flowing.

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

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

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

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

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“do not misunderstand person by beauty You really do not know its real or Mask on dirty thoughts”

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Call her beautiful a million times and she won't believe you. Call her ugly once, and she will never forget it.

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