“For milkmaids and queens and gipsy-princesses
Dream and kiss blindfold or starve upon guesses.”

—  Thomas Sturge Moore

"Reason Enough", line 7; from The Sea is Kind (London: Grant Richards, 1914) p. 75.

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British playwright, poet and artist 1870–1944

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