“In the fire of love we live, or pass by many ways,
By unnumbered ways of dream to death.”

— George William Russell

The Nuts of Knowledge (1903)

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Irish writer, editor, critic, poet, and artistic painter 1867–1935

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“In the fire of love we live, or pass by many ways,By unnumbered ways of dream to death.”

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“In the fire of love we live, or pass by many ways,
By unnumbered ways of dream to death.”