But he cannot see a connection between the end of yearning and the end…

J. M. Coetzee
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But he cannot see a connection between the end of yearning and the end of poetry. Is that what growing up amounts to: growing out of yearning, of passion, of all intensities of the soul? ✨ J. M. Coetzee (2002). Youth, Harvill Secker
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But he cannot see a connection between the end of yearning and the end of poetry. Is that what growing up amounts to: growing out of yearning, of passion, of all intensities of the soul? ✨ J. M. Coetzee (2002). Youth, Harvill Secker

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