“When along the pavement,
Palpitating flames of life,
People flicker around me,
I forget my bereavement,
The gap in the great constellation,
The place where a star used to be”

— D.H. Lawrence

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English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary crit… 1885–1930

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