“The Shell

The sea fills my ear
with sand and with fear.

You may wash out the sand,
but never the sound
of the ghost of the sea
that is haunting me.”

—  Ted Hughes

Source: The Mermaid's Purse: poems by Ted Hughes

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English poet and children's writer 1930–1998

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