Source: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
“Lift the world up by your levity,
Rock, love, carry it away, turn it upside down.”
"Come, Holy Harlequin" (1974)
Context: Teach the crippled how to leap,
Throw their crutches on a heap,
Rock, love, carry it away, turn it upside down.
Rock, love, carry it away,
Lift the world up by your levity,
Rock, love, carry it away, turn it upside down.
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Rock, love, carry it away, turn it upside down." by Sydney Carter?
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British musician and poet 1915–2004Related quotes
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