Edward Abbey (1927–1989) American author and essayist
Confessions of a Barbarian: Selections from the Journals of Edward Abbey, 1951-1989 (1994) p. 92
“Love is that orbit of the restless soul
Whose circle grazes the confines of space,
Bounding within the limits of its race
Utmost extremes.”
Sequence on Profane Love (posthumously published, 1927).
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