"Autumn resumes the land, ruffles the woods with smoky wings, entangles them."

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Source : Geoffrey Hill (2000). “New & Collected Poems, 1952-1992”, p.148, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Geoffrey Hill

#Nature Quotes #Autumn Quotes #Land Quotes

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