Our ears are like shells

Author: Kong Mingzhu
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Publish Date: 2003-07-01
Features: "Our ears are like shells, yearning for the waves of the sea," these are the lines of the French modernist poet Jean Cocteau. During my girlhood, I particularly loved this line, admiring its rhythm and rhyme, its beautiful imagery, and its innocent playfulness. I once copied it in my orange-yellow-covered notebook, on the first page.