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A Bit of Early Morning Poetry
    #8237201 - 04/04/08 06:47 AM (15 years, 11 months ago)

No, not my own. I'm not nearly presumptuous enough to subject all of you to that.

Instead I turn to Aeschylus, of the 5th Century B.C.E.

Quote:


Aeschylus said:
In our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.




Most powerful quote I've heard in awhile. I was just driving home from work in the rain and one of the local stations was playing the speech Bobby Kennedy gave in Indianapolis the night that Martin Luther King Jr. was shot. If you can find the audio of that speech somewhere I urge you to give it a listen. Very poignant and from all accounts completely extemporaneous.

But he quote that poem at any rate, and that really stuck with me for some reason.

Just thought I'd share it with you all.


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After one comes, through contact with it's administrators, no longer to cherish greatly the law as a remedy in abuses, then the bottle becomes a sovereign means of direct action.  If you cannot throw it at least you can always drink out of it.  - Ernest Hemingway

If it is life that you feel you are missing I can tell you where to find it.  In the law courts, in business, in government.  There is nothing occurring in the streets. Nothing but a dumbshow composed of the helpless and the impotent.    -Cormac MacCarthy

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.  - Aeschylus

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