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Poetry · Reflection
PLATO ~ ON BEING A POET
20 July 2011
‘Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.”
Plato
The image is from a classical sculpture of Plato found on Crete.
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