poets are privileged to utter more than they can always quite explain, bringing up from the mind's unplumbed … - Vernon Lee

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The helmet has a special meaning for many drivers. How important is it to you? - It protects my head.

Vernon Lee

poets are privileged to utter more than they can always quite explain, bringing up from the mind's unplumbed depths tokens of the nature of the world we carry within us.

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