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" To learn by heart is to learn
By hurt—grief inscribing
Its wisdom in the soft tissue.

Song you sing, poem you are—
Finger moving, precise
As a phonograph needle,
Along the groove of scar. "

― Gregory Orr , How Beautiful the Beloved

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Gregory Orr quote : To learn by heart is to learn<br />By hurt—grief inscribing<br />Its wisdom in the soft tissue.<br /><br />Song you sing, poem you are—<br />Finger moving, precise<br />As a phonograph needle,<br />Along the groove of scar.
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