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Jan 26, 2023Liked by sympathetic opposition

"At a Bach Concert" Adrienne Riche

Coming by evening through the wintry city

We said that art is out of love with life.

Here we approach a love that is not pity.

This antique discipline, tenderly severe,

Renews belief in love yet masters feeling,

Asking of us a grace in what we bear.

Form is the ultimate gift that love can offer -

The vital union of necessity

With all that we desire, all that we suffer.

A too-compassionate art is half an art.

Only such proud restraining purity

Restores the else-betrayed, too-human heart.

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Jan 26, 2023Liked by sympathetic opposition

i kind of adore that girl for her comment though :)

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