poetry repairs your heart even as it splits it
open. VIRGINIA WOOLF The Art of Reading]
REPAIR resort,
frequent or habitual going; concourse or confluence of people at or in a
place; making one's way; to go, betake oneself, to arrive; return to a
place; to dwell; to recover, heal, or cure; to renew; to fix to original
condition.
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