What did Conrad Aiken mean by: Should I not hear, as I lie down in dust, The horns of glory blowing above my burial? - Conrad Aiken Novelist · USA Copy
+ Separate we come, and separate we go, And this be it known, is all that we know. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Conrad Aiken, Being Alone, Loneliness, 0 - Conrad Aiken Novelist · USA
+ Life is the thing–the song of life– The eager plow, the thirsty knife! Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Conrad Aiken, Knives, 0 - Conrad Aiken Novelist · USA
+ One is least sure of one’s self, sometimes, when one is most positive. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Conrad Aiken, Self, 0 - Conrad Aiken Novelist · USA
+ Poetry will absorb and transmute, as it always has done, and glorify, all that we can know. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Conrad Aiken, Glorify, 0 - Conrad Aiken Novelist · USA
+ Forward into the untrodden! Courage, old man, and hold on to your umbrella! Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Conrad Aiken, Old Man, Umbrella, 0 - Conrad Aiken Novelist · USA
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
There’s no such thing as autobiography, there’s only art and lies - Jeanette Winterson Author · England
After the writer’s death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
A man has made great progress in cunning when he does not seem too clever to others. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
The art of love is to embrace the world and that which lies beyond it. Explain - Frederick Lenz Philosopher · USA
