“Two lovers move in the crowd like a link of music,
We press upon them, we hold them, and let them pass;
A chord of music strikes us and straight we tremble;
We tremble like wind-blown grass.”

— Conrad Aiken

The House of Dust (1916 - 1917)

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American novelist and poet 1889–1973

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