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The poet is a brother speaking to a brother of "a moment of their other lives" - a moment that had been buried beneath the dust of the busy world.


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This page presents the quote "The poet is a brother speaking to a brother of &quot;a moment of their other lives&quot; - a moment that had been buried beneath the dust of the busy world.". Author of this quote is Edith Sitwell. This quote is about poet, dust, brother, buried, busy, world,.