“When I do not walk in the clouds I walk as though I were lost.”
Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet
Cuando no ando en las nubes, ando como perdido.
Voces (1943)
“Locked in a struggle for the right combination
Of words in a melody line,
I took a walk along the riverbank of my imagination.
Golden clouds were shuffling the sunshine.”
Everything About It Is a Love Song
Song lyrics, Surprise (2006)
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