Conrad Aiken Quotes About Ghosts

Quotes about: Ghosts

• The wandering one, the inquisitive dreamer of dreams, the eternal asker of answers, stands in the street, and lifts his palms for the first cold ghost of rain.

  Conrad Aiken

  Dream, Rain, Answers

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

• We are the ghosts of the singing furies .

  Conrad Aiken

  Singing, Ghost, Fury

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

• 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

• The wind shrieks, the wind grieves; It dashes the leaves on walls, it whirls then again; And the enormous sleeper vaguely and stupidly dreams And desires to stir, to resist a ghost of pain.

  Conrad Aiken

  Dream, Pain, Wall

  Conrad Aiken (1920). “The House of Dust: A Symphony”

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