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Poetry shows rather than tells
Laws and stories instruct. Love poetry cultivates virtue in a different way: by modeling mutual flourishing between equal partners.
Bread and roses.
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He urges her to rise; she awakens him. Their love inspires rather than consumes. Avoiding both asceticism and libertinism, the Song pairs tenderness with sensuality, a revolution, to borrow from Emma Goldman, that makes time for dancing.
Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 439–440
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