Author: Cecil Day-Lewis
Cited by
- Kate Lord Brown (1)
- IN: The Perfume Garden (2012) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: I have had worse partings, but none that so
Gnaws at my mind still, Perhaps it is roughly
Saying what God alone could perfectly show—
How selfhood begins with a walking away,
And love is proved in the letting go.
FROM: Walking Away, (1962), Poem, Ireland