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Top 30 Conrad Aiken Quotes (2025 Update)

Conrad Aiken Quote: “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.”

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

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

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Conrad Aiken Quote: “I love you, what star do you live on?”

3. “I love you, what star do you live on?”

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Conrad Aiken Quote: “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.”

4. “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.”

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Conrad Aiken Quote: “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.”

5. “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

Conrad Aiken Quote: “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.”

6. “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.”

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Conrad Aiken Quote: “The hiss was now becoming a roar – the whole world was a vast moving screen of snow – but even now it said peace, it said remoteness, it said cold, it said sleep.”

7. “The hiss was now becoming a roar – the whole world was a vast moving screen of snow – but even now it said peace, it said remoteness, it said cold, it said sleep.”

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

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

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Conrad Aiken Quote: “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.”

9. “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.”

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Conrad Aiken Quote: “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.”

10. “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

Conrad Aiken Quote: “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.”

11. “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.”

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Conrad Aiken Quote: “Forward into the untrodden! Courage, old man, and hold on to your umbrella!”

12. “Forward into the untrodden! Courage, old man, and hold on to your umbrella!”

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Conrad Aiken Quote: “All that is beautiful, and all that looks on beauty with eyes filled with fire, like a lover’s eyes: all of this is yours; you gave it to me, sunlight! all these stars are yours; you gave them to me, skies!”

13. “All that is beautiful, and all that looks on beauty with eyes filled with fire, like a lover’s eyes: all of this is yours; you gave it to me, sunlight! all these stars are yours; you gave them to me, skies!”

— Conrad Aiken

Conrad Aiken Quote: “We are the ghosts of the singing furies .”

14. “We are the ghosts of the singing furies .”

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Conrad Aiken Quote: “Death is a meeting place of sea and sea.”

15. “Death is a meeting place of sea and sea.”

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Conrad Aiken Quote: “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.”

16. “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

Conrad Aiken Quote: “No god save self, that is the way to live...”

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

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

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

— Conrad Aiken

Conrad Aiken Quote: “The days, the nights, flow one by one above us. The hours go silently over our lifted faces. We are like dreamers who walk beneath a sea. Beneath high walls we flow in the sun together. We sleep, we wake, we laugh, we pursue, we flee.”

19. “The days, the nights, flow one by one above us. The hours go silently over our lifted faces. We are like dreamers who walk beneath a sea. Beneath high walls we flow in the sun together. We sleep, we wake, we laugh, we pursue, we flee.”

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Conrad Aiken Quote: “Death is one dream out of another flowing.”

20. “Death is one dream out of another flowing.”

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Conrad Aiken Quote: “Life is the thing – the song of life – The eager plow, the thirsty knife!”

21. “Life is the thing – the song of life – The eager plow, the thirsty knife!”

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Conrad Aiken Quote: “Youth yearns to youth, full blood loves full blood only.”

22. “Youth yearns to youth, full blood loves full blood only.”

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Conrad Aiken Quote: “For in this walk, this voyage, it is yourself, the profound history of your ‘self,’ that now as always you encounter.”

23. “For in this walk, this voyage, it is yourself, the profound history of your ‘self,’ that now as always you encounter.”

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Conrad Aiken Quote: “The truth – a hideous spectacle!”

24. “The truth – a hideous spectacle!”

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Conrad Aiken Quote: “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.”

25. “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

Conrad Aiken Quote: “Before him, numberless lovers smiled and talked. And death was observed with sudden cries, And birth with laughter and pain. And the trees grew taller and blacker against the skies And night came down again.”

26. “Before him, numberless lovers smiled and talked. And death was observed with sudden cries, And birth with laughter and pain. And the trees grew taller and blacker against the skies And night came down again.”

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Conrad Aiken Quote: “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.”

27. “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

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Conrad Aiken Quote: “Is it a comb, a fan, a torn dress, a curtain, a bed, an empty rice-bin? It hardly seems to matter. The Chinese poet makes a heart-breaking poetry out of these quite as naturally as Keats did out of the song of a nightingale heard in a spring garden. It is rarely dithyrambic, rarely high-pitched: part of its charm is its tranquility, its self-control. And the humblest reads it with as much emotion as the most learned.”

28. “Is it a comb, a fan, a torn dress, a curtain, a bed, an empty rice-bin? It hardly seems to matter. The Chinese poet makes a heart-breaking poetry out of these quite as naturally as Keats did out of the song of a nightingale heard in a spring garden. It is rarely dithyrambic, rarely high-pitched: part of its charm is its tranquility, its self-control. And the humblest reads it with as much emotion as the most learned.”

— Conrad Aiken

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

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

— Conrad Aiken

Conrad Aiken Quote: “One is least sure of one’s self, sometimes, when one is most positive.”

30. “One is least sure of one’s self, sometimes, when one is most positive.”

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