After Aeschylus, παθει μαθος
Thomas Festa
Whoever holds as a fixed law
that wisdom comes through suffering
won’t forget in sleep
how pain falls drop by drop upon the heart
until truth comes, like it or not,
an awful grace, molten
out of our pain.
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