Quotes by Conrad Aiken

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.

Lovely

Pennies

Youth

As poetry is the highest speech of man, it can not only accept and contain, but in the end express best everything in the world, or in himself, that he discovers. It will absorb and transmute, as it always has done, and glorify, all that we can know. This has always been, and always will be, poetry’s office.

Done

Men

Office

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.

Eye

Heart

Sweet

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

Beautiful

Dream

Strange

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

Dust

Magnificence

Men

I always hankered to be a composer – I was mad about music, though I never studied seriously, and can’t read a note. But I learned to play the piano and became pretty skillful at improvisation, especially after a drop or two.

Piano

Play

Two

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.

Book

Machines

Typewriters

I love you, what star do you live on?

I Love You

Love You

Stars

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

Enough

Fiction

Structure

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.

Being Yourself

Giving

Thinking

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Alcohol

Answers

Autumn

Beautiful

Being Alone

Being Yourself

Blood

Book

Bread

Children

Dark

Death

Done

Dream

Dust

Enough

Eye

Fall

Fiction

Forever

Giving

Glorify

Hate

Heart

Hideous

Horse

I Love You

Knows

Littles

Loneliness

Long Ago

Love

Love You

Lovely

Lying

Machines

Magnificence

Men

Moving

Music

Night

Office

Pain

Pennies

Peyote

Piano

Play

Profound

Rain

Ridiculous

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Quotes by Conrad Aiken

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.

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.

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

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

I always hankered to be a composer – I was mad about music, though I never studied seriously, and can’t read a note. But I learned to play the piano and became pretty skillful at improvisation, especially after a drop or two.

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 love you, what star do you live on?

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

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.

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