Conrad Aiken

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Conrad Potter Aiken (August 5, 1889 – August 17, 1973) was an American writer of poetry, short stories, novels, and a book about himself (autobiography).

• "All lovely things must have an ending

All lovely things must fade and die

And Youth, that's now so bravely spending

Must beg a penny by and by"^[1]

• "I love you, what star do you live on?"^[2]

• "Music I heard with you was more than music, and bread I broke with you was more than bread. Now that I am without you, all is desolate; all that was once so beautiful is dead."

• "Separate we come, and separate we go, And this be it known, is all that we know."

• Conrad Aiken on the English Wikipedia