74 Quotes by Conrad Aiken

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

I'm not in the least Southern; I'm entirely New England.

Forward into the untrodden! Courage, old man, and hold on to your umbrella!

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

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

We are the ghosts of the singing furies .

I ascend from darkness And depart on the winds of space for I know not where; My watch is wound, a key is in my pocket, And the sky is darkened as I descend the stair.

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.

Ghostly above us in lamplight the towers gleam ... and after a while they will fall to dust and rain; or else we will tear them down with impatient hands; and hew rock out of the earth, and build them again.