“Walk with me world, upon my right hand walk,
speak to me Babel, that I may strive to assemble
of all these syllables a single word
before the purpose of speech is gone.”

—  Conrad Aiken

"This image or another," The Nation (28 December 1932)

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American novelist and poet 1889–1973

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