3 Conrad Aiken Quotes on Solitude

Conrad Aiken quotes on solitude

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

17. There, in the high bright window he dreams, and sees What we are blind to,-we who mass and crowd From wall to wall in the darkening of a cloud.

60. The music ends. The screen grows dark. We hurry To go our devious secret ways, forgetting Those many lives . . . We loved, we laughed, we killed, We danced in fire, we drowned in a whirl of sea-waves. The flutes are stilled, and a thousand dreams are stilled.