“And then the heart in its white sailing pride
Launches among the swans and the stretched lights
Laid on the water, as on your cheek
The other kiss and my listening
Life, waiting for all your life to speak.”

"Two Kisses"
The Still Centre (1939)

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English poet and man of letters 1909–1995

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