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Conrad Aiken Quotes about Heart

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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.

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
Horse, Heart, Night
Conrad Aiken (1970). “Collected poems”, Oxford Univ Pr

Time in the heart and sequence in the brain-- Such as destroyed Rimbaud and fooled Verlaine. And let us then take godhead by the neck-- And strangle it, and with it, rhetoric.

Conrad Aiken
Time, Heart, Brain
Conrad Aiken (1970). “Collected poems”, Oxford Univ Pr

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.

Conrad Aiken
Sweet, Heart, Eye
Conrad Aiken (1961). “Selected Poems”, p.273, Oxford University Press on Demand

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