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Judge me if you want to. And as a matter of fact, it won't even count, 'cause the only person who can judge is God. — Kelly Rowland

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

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

Dreams: the place most of us get what we need. — Amy Hempel

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

I always had the fear of being separated and abandoned. The sewing is my attempt to keep things together and make things whole. — Louise Bourgeois

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

Life is short. You can't afford to put off what God has put in your heart. You don't have time to live with things holding you back. — Joel Osteen

Death is a meeting place of sea and sea. — 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

We are the ghosts of the singing furies . — Conrad Aiken

Acting is like sex, it's possible if your partner is bad, but it's better if they're good. — Xavier Samuel

Life is the thing
the song of life
The eager plow, the thirsty knife! — Conrad Aiken

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

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

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

He walked out of the cottage and into the night.
He was stark naked. — Max Ehrlich

David is purely a conceptual artist. He didn't play any instruments or paint or anything. We were painters. — Tina Weymouth

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

Cosmos mariner destination unknown — Conrad Aiken

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

Youth yearns to youth, full blood loves full blood only. — Conrad Aiken

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

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

Punishment doesn't mean you aren't loved. On the contrary. You can only punish someone you love. — Catherynne M Valente

The truth
a hideous spectacle! — Conrad Aiken

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

It doesn't matter what someone is. Only what they think they are. — V.E Schwab

I love you, what star do you live on? — Conrad Aiken