“Into the dark night
Resignedly I go,
I am not so afraid of the dark night
As the friends I do not know,
I do not fear the night above
As I fear the friends below.”

—  Stevie Smith

Source: Selected Poems

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poet, novelist, illustrator, performer 1902–1971

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