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

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

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

I love you, what star do you live on?

Conrad Aiken quotes: Forward into the untrodden! Courage, old man,and hold on to your umbrella! Have you got your garters on? Mind your hat! ("Mr. Arcularis")

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 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: Life is the thingthe 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: [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: 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: Death is a meeting place of sea and sea.

Death is a meeting place of sea and sea.

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.

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: We are the ghosts of the singing furies .

We are the ghosts of the singing furies .

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: Cosmos mariner destination unknown

Cosmos mariner destination unknown

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

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

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: 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: The trutha hideous spectacle!

The truth
a hideous spectacle!

Conrad Aiken quotes: Music I heard with you was more than music. And bread I broke with you was more than bread.

Music I heard with you was more than music. And bread I broke with you was more than bread.