"Only in dreams, in poetry, in play do we sometimes arrive at what we were before we were this thing that, who knows, we are."

Dream, Dreams, Poetry, Play

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"Only in dreams, in poetry, in play do we sometimes arrive at what we were before we were this thing that, who knows, we are."

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