“I was absent, dedicated to invisible countries.”
About This Quote
“Invisible Country” — An otherworldly order secretly within our worldly order, a powerful force that exists without existing, a root grounding the ground that is too apparent to be noticed... This quote is from the poem "Nonadapatation"
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