I do not advocate neglecting your parents: honour and succour them, especially in their old age, but don’t stay at home and do housework when you long, body and soul, to fly to the uttermost ends of the earth, there to find your mission in life and your gift to the world.

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the Introduction of Stella Wolfe Murray's The Poetry of Flight (1925)

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