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My favorite poet was Aeschylus. He wrote:
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.
More of the background of that statement and the circumstances under which he delivered that news:
http://www.npr.org/2008/04/04/89365887/robert-kennedy-delivering-news-of-kings-death
April 4th, 1968, another day of horror and grief. Two months later, he would be felled by a bullet, like King, like his brother John, like Evers, like so many others.
As we approach the 50th anniversary of the death of JFK, let us not forget our current blessing:
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.
More of the background of that statement and the circumstances under which he delivered that news:
http://www.npr.org/2008/04/04/89365887/robert-kennedy-delivering-news-of-kings-death
April 4th, 1968, another day of horror and grief. Two months later, he would be felled by a bullet, like King, like his brother John, like Evers, like so many others.
As we approach the 50th anniversary of the death of JFK, let us not forget our current blessing:
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