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Conrad Aiken Quotes: "All lovely things will have an ending, all lovely things will fade and die; and youth, that's now so bravely spending, Will beg a penny by and by."

All lovely things will have an ending, all lovely things will fade and die; and youth, that's now so bravely spending, Will beg a penny by and by.



Conrad Aiken Quotes: "The wandering one, the inquisitive dreamer of dreams, the eternal asker of answers, stands in the street, and lifts his palms for the first cold ghost of rain."

The wandering one, the inquisitive dreamer of dreams, the eternal asker of answers, stands in the street, and lifts his palms for the first cold ghost of rain.




Conrad Aiken Quotes: "[At a musical concert:] . . . the music's pure algebra of enchantment."

[At a musical concert:] . . . the music's pure algebra of enchantment.



Conrad Aiken Quotes: "Forward into the untrodden! Courage, old man, and hold on to your umbrella!"

Forward into the untrodden! Courage, old man, and hold on to your umbrella!




Conrad Aiken Quotes: "My heart has become as hard as a city street, the horses trample upon it, it sings like iron, all day long and all night long they beat, they ring like the hooves of time."

My heart has become as hard as a city street, the horses trample upon it, it sings like iron, all day long and all night long they beat, they ring like the hooves of time.



Conrad Aiken Quotes: "O sweet clean earth, from whom the green blade cometh! When we are dead, my best beloved and I, close well above us, that we may rest forever, sending up grass and blossoms to the sky."

O sweet clean earth, from whom the green blade cometh! When we are dead, my best beloved and I, close well above us, that we may rest forever, sending up grass and blossoms to the sky.



Conrad Aiken Quotes: "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."

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.




Conrad Aiken Quotes: "I'm afraid I wasn't much of a student, but my casual reading was enormous."

I'm afraid I wasn't much of a student, but my casual reading was enormous.



Conrad Aiken Quotes: "It's time to make love, douse the glim; The fireflies twinkle and dim; The stars lean together Like birds of a feather, And the loin lies down with the limb."

It's time to make love, douse the glim; The fireflies twinkle and dim; The stars lean together Like birds of a feather, And the loin lies down with the limb.



Conrad Aiken Quotes: "No god save self, that is the way to live."

No god save self, that is the way to live.



Conrad Aiken Quotes: "Separate we come, and separate we go, And this be it known, is all that we know."

Separate we come, and separate we go, And this be it known, is all that we know.



Conrad Aiken Quotes: "Youth yearns to youth, full blood loves full blood only."

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




Conrad Aiken Quotes: "Life is the thing--the song of life-- The eager plow, the thirsty knife!"

Life is the thing--the song of life-- The eager plow, the thirsty knife!



Conrad Aiken Quotes: "I ascend from darkness And depart on the winds of space for I know not where; My watch is wound, a key is in my pocket, And the sky is darkened as I descend the stair."

I ascend from darkness And depart on the winds of space for I know not where; My watch is wound, a key is in my pocket, And the sky is darkened as I descend the stair.



Conrad Aiken Quotes: "The one you love leans forward, smiles, deceives you, Opens a door through which you see dark dreams."

The one you love leans forward, smiles, deceives you, Opens a door through which you see dark dreams.



Conrad Aiken Quotes: "How shall we praise the magnificence of the dead, The great man humbled, the haughty brought to dust?"

How shall we praise the magnificence of the dead, The great man humbled, the haughty brought to dust?



Conrad Aiken Quotes: "We are the ghosts of the singing furies ."

We are the ghosts of the singing furies .



Conrad Aiken Quotes: "Death is one dream out of another flowing."

Death is one dream out of another flowing.



Conrad Aiken Quotes: "The truth--a hideous spectacle!"

The truth--a hideous spectacle!



Conrad Aiken Quotes: "Death is a meeting place of sea and sea."

Death is a meeting place of sea and sea.



Conrad Aiken Quotes: "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 just be yourself."

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 just be yourself.



Conrad Aiken Quotes: "I think there's an enormous lot of talent around, and somewhere amongst these I'm sure that something will emerge, given time."

I think there's an enormous lot of talent around, and somewhere amongst these I'm sure that something will emerge, given time.



Conrad Aiken Quotes: "Come back, true love! Sweet youth, return!— But time goes on, and will, unheeding, Though hands will reach, and eyes will yearn, And the wild days set true hearts bleeding."

Come back, true love! Sweet youth, return!— But time goes on, and will, unheeding, Though hands will reach, and eyes will yearn, And the wild days set true hearts bleeding.



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

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 Quotes: "Whitman had a profound influence on me. That was during my sophomore year when I came down with a bad attack of Whitmanitis. But he did me a lot of good, and I think the influence is discoverable."

Whitman had a profound influence on me. That was during my sophomore year when I came down with a bad attack of Whitmanitis. But he did me a lot of good, and I think the influence is discoverable.



Conrad Aiken Quotes: "The wind shrieks, the wind grieves; It dashes the leaves on walls, it whirls then again; And the enormous sleeper vaguely and stupidly dreams And desires to stir, to resist a ghost of pain."

The wind shrieks, the wind grieves; It dashes the leaves on walls, it whirls then again; And the enormous sleeper vaguely and stupidly dreams And desires to stir, to resist a ghost of pain.



Conrad Aiken Quotes: "I'm not in the least Southern; I'm entirely New England."

I'm not in the least Southern; I'm entirely New England.



Conrad Aiken Quotes: "I began by doing book reviews on the typewriter and then went over to short stories on the machine, meanwhile sticking to pencil for poetry."

I began by doing book reviews on the typewriter and then went over to short stories on the machine, meanwhile sticking to pencil for poetry.



Conrad Aiken Quotes: "I really don't know enough about the structure of fiction."

I really don't know enough about the structure of fiction.



Conrad Aiken Quotes: "Time in the heart and sequence in the brain-- Such as destroyed Rimbaud and fooled Verlaine. And let us then take godhead by the neck-- And strangle it, and with it, rhetoric."

Time in the heart and sequence in the brain-- Such as destroyed Rimbaud and fooled Verlaine. And let us then take godhead by the neck-- And strangle it, and with it, rhetoric.



Conrad Aiken Quotes: "Poetry will absorb and transmute, as it always has done, and glorify, all that we can know."

Poetry will absorb and transmute, as it always has done, and glorify, all that we can know.



Conrad Aiken Quotes: "He whose first emotion, on the view of an excellent work, is to undervalue or depreciate it, will never have one of his own to show."

He whose first emotion, on the view of an excellent work, is to undervalue or depreciate it, will never have one of his own to show.



Conrad Aiken Quotes: "Should I not hear, as I lie down in dust, The horns of glory blowing above my burial?"

Should I not hear, as I lie down in dust, The horns of glory blowing above my burial?



Conrad Aiken Quotes: "For in this walk, this voyage, it is yourself, the profound history of your 'self,' that now as always you encounter."

For in this walk, this voyage, it is yourself, the profound history of your 'self,' that now as always you encounter.



Conrad Aiken Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "I love you, what star do you live on?"

I love you, what star do you live on?



Conrad Aiken Quotes: "We were all born of flesh, in a flare of pain. We do not remember the red roots whence we rose, but we know that we rose and walked, that after a while we shall lie down again."

We were all born of flesh, in a flare of pain. We do not remember the red roots whence we rose, but we know that we rose and walked, that after a while we shall lie down again.



Conrad Aiken Quotes: "One is least sure of one's self, sometimes, when one is most positive."

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