Famous Quotes | a child who traced...

a child who traced voyages
indelibly all over the atlas, who now in a far country
remembers the first river, the first
field, bricks and lumber dumped in it ready for building,
that new smell, and remembers
the walls of the garden, the first light.
- Denise Levertov
Attribution: Denise Levertov (b. 1923), Anglo–U.S. poet. “A Map of the Western Part of the County of Essex in England.”

Categories: Childhood, Memories

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