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Wind moving through grass so that the grass quivers. This moves me with an emotion I don't even understand.

Katherine Mansfield

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Katherine Mansfield
Age: 34 †
Born: 1888
Born: October 14
Died: 1923
Died: January 9
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Poet
Writer
Wellington
New Zealand
Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp Murry
Kathleen Murry
Katherine Beauchamp Mansfield
Kathleen Mansfield Murry
Moving
Understand
Even
Quivers
Quiver
Moves
Grass
Wind
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