"Dear friend,
I have not written to you for a long time, and meanwhile have been in France and have seen the cold and lonely earth …"
—
Hölderlin, in a letter to Casimir Ulrich Böhlendorff, translated by Michael Hamburger, in Hölderlin: Selected Poems and Fragments
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