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Selfhood begins with a walking away, And love is proved in the letting go. — Cecil Day-Lewis

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Selfhood begins with a walking away, And love is proved in the letting go.

Cecil Day-Lewis
1962
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Letting goLove
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Poem
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1962
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Cecil Day-Lewis
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Day-Lewis, Cecil. "Walking Away." The Gate, and Other Poems. London: Jonathan Cape, 1962, I. 19.

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