"Well," he said slowly, "sometimes there's a passion that comes in its springtime to ill fate or death. And because it ends in its beauty, it's what th...
It is not death that allows us to understand each other, but poetry.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin ~
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It is not death that allows us to understand each other, but poetry.
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