No, I shall not say why it is that I love you-
Why do you ask me, save for vanity?
(The House Of Dust: Part 04: 05: The Bitter Love-song)
More Quotes from Conrad Aiken:
The scene was pain, and nothing but pain.Conrad Aiken
The hour is open as the mind is open.
Conrad Aiken
And you, who smile about you at this room,
Is it foretold
That you must step from tumult into gloom,
Forget me, love another?
Conrad Aiken
We eddy about her, move away in silence.
Conrad Aiken
You will live long, love many times.
Conrad Aiken
And one goes out to death.
Conrad Aiken
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Vanity QuotesBased on Keywords: you-
I'm alive. That's a good thing.
Will Shields
Then it was that the exports of slaves from Virginia and the Carolinas was so great that the population of those States remained almost, if not quite stationary.
Henry Charles Carey
Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn