Wednesday, November 29, 2006

"The Awful Grace of God"

"Even 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." --Aeschylus (Robert Kennedy's favorite poem--recited when he announced the assassination of MLK)

"Rage, Goddess, sing the rage of Peleus’ Son Achilles…hurling down to the House of Death so many souls, great fighters’ souls, but made their bodies carrion for the dogs and birds….(
from Bill Moyer's "The Poetry of War"

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