"The days, the nights, flow one by one above us. The hours go silently over our lifted faces. We are like dreamers who walk beneath a sea. Beneath high walls we flow in the sun together. We sleep, we wake, we laugh, we pursue, we flee."

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

Conrad Aiken

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