“These are the sensations and feelings that are gradually blunted by education, staled by custom, rejected in favor of social conformity.”

Referring to the curiosity and sense of wonder of the child, p. 17
Collected Poems (1966)

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English anarchist, poet, and critic of literature and art 1893–1968

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