Conrad Aiken Quotes about Lying

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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.

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

Stars, Lying, Firefly

Conrad Aiken (1964). “A seizure of limericks”

You know, without my telling you, how sometimes a word or name eludes you, and you seek it through running ghosts of shadow -- leaping at it, lying in wait for it to spring upon it, spreading faint snares for it of sense or sound: until, of a sudden, as if in a phantom forest, you hear it, see it flash among the branches, and scarcely knowing how, suddenly have it.

Conrad Aiken

Running, Lying, Spring

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

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.

Conrad Aiken

Pain, Lying, Roots

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