“What will survive of us is love.

- from”

"An Arundel Tomb" (20 February 1956)
Variant: Our almost-instinct almost true:
What will survive of us is love.
Source: The Whitsun Weddings (1964)

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English poet, novelist, jazz critic and librarian 1922–1985

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