5 Quotes by Conrad Aiken about death

  • Author Conrad Aiken
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    So, talking with my first wife,At the dark end of evening, when she leanedAnd smiled at me, with blue eyes weaving websOf finest fire, revolving me in scarlet,--Calling to mind remote and small successionsOf countless other evenings ending so,--I smiled, and met her kiss, and wished her dead

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  • Author Conrad Aiken
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    Here too was the terrifying fixed curve of the infinite, the creeping curve of logic which at least must become the final signpost at the edge of nothing. After that - the deluge. The great white light of annihilation. The bright flash of death... ("Mr. Arcularis")

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  • Author Conrad Aiken
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    Should I not hear, as I lie down in dust, The horns of glory blowing above my burial?

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