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And we can get back to that raw state
Of feeling, so long deemed
Inconsequential and therefore appropriate to our later musings
About religion, about migrations. What is restored
Becomes stronger than the loss as it is remembered;
Is a new, separate life of its own. - John Ashbery
Attribution: John Ashbery (b. 1927), U.S. poet, critic. “A Wave.”

Categories: Critic, Feelings, Loss, Restoration

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