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Conrad Aiken quotes

American Author August 5, 1889 – August 17, 1973

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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
Conrad Aiken quote: "I love you, what star do you live on?"
I love you, what star do you live on? Conrad Aiken
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
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. Your hands once touched this table and this silver, And I have seen your fingers hold this glass. These things do not remember you, beloved: And yet your touch upon them will not pass. For it was in my heart you moved among them, And blessed them with your hands and with your eyes. And in my heart they will... 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 sand shore. It is moonlight. The garden is silent. I stand in my room alone. Across my wall, from the far-off moon, A rain of fire is thrown. There are houses hanging above the stars, And stars hung under the sea, And a wind from the long blue vault of time. Waves my curtains for me. I wait in the dark once more, swung between space and space: Before the mirror I... Conrad Aiken
Here too was the terrifying fixed curve of the infinite, the creeping curve of logic which at least must become the final signpost at the edge of nothing. After that - the deluge. The great white light of annihilation. The bright flash of death... ("Mr. Arcularis") Conrad Aiken
Conrad Aiken quote: "Music I heard with you was more than music. And bread I broke..."
Music I heard with you was more than music. And bread I broke with you was more than bread. Conrad Aiken
Forward into the untrodden! Courage, old man, and hold on to your umbrella! Have you got your garters on? Mind your hat! ("Mr. Arcularis") Conrad Aiken
Conrad Aiken quote: "Separate we come, and separate we go, And this be it known, is..."
Separate we come, and separate we go, And this be it known, is all that we know. Conrad Aiken
Conrad Aiken quote: "Cosmos mariner destination unknown"
Cosmos mariner destination unknown Conrad Aiken

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