But now he understood why someone would write things like ‘she walked in beauty like the night’ and so forth. Because poetry was a barrier against raw emotions. It distilled them into bearable music, allowed one to accommodate them a little at a time.
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But now he understood why someone would write things like ‘she walked in beauty like the night’ and so forth. Because poetry was a barrier against raw emotions. It distilled them into bearable music, allowed one to accommodate them a little at a time.