“I hear the little children of the wind
Crying solitary in lonely places.”
William Sharp (writer) (1855–1905) Scottish writer
Little Children of the Wind, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Lonely children often have imaginary playmates but I was never lonely; rather, I was solitary, and wanted no company at all other than books and movies, and my own imagination.”
Source: 1990s, Screening History (1992), Ch. 1: The Prince and the Pauper, p. 23
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