Famous Quotes | and the deaf soul
struggles,...

and the deaf soul
struggles, strains forward, to lip-read what it needs:
and something is said, quickly,
in words of cloud-shadows moving and
the unmoving turn of the road, something
not quite caught ... - Denise Levertov
Attribution: Denise Levertov (b. 1923), Anglo–U.S. poet. “In Memory of Boris Pasternak.”

Categories: Deafness, Language

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