“There’s a cool web of language winds us in,
Retreat from too much joy or too much fear:
We grow sea-green at last and coldly die
In brininess and volubility.”

"The Cool Web," lines 9–12, from Poems 1914-1926 (1927).
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English poet and novelist 1895–1985

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“There’s a cool web of language winds us in,Retreat from too much joy or too much fear:We grow sea-green at last and coldly dieIn brininess and volubility.”

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“There’s a cool web of language winds us in,
Retreat from too much joy or too much fear:
We grow sea-green at last and coldly die
In brininess and volubility.”