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Dancing brings an endlessness in which nothing matters but to go on dancing - in a room, till the walls disappear - in the open, till the sky, moving as you dance, seems to cleave and let you through.

Dorothy Richardson

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Dorothy Richardson
Age: 84 †
Born: 1873
Born: May 17
Died: 1957
Died: June 17
Author
Journalist
Poet
Translator
Writer
Abingdon
Berkshire
Dorothy Miller Richardson
Open
Brings
Moving
Dancing
Seems
Sky
Nothing
Matters
Endlessness
Matter
Dance
Cleave
Wall
Walls
Room
Till
Rooms
Disappear

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