"The White Goddess," lines 18–22, from Poems and Satires (1951)
Poems
“We forget cruelty and past betrayal,
Heedless of where the next bright bolt may fall.”
Robert Graves book The White Goddess
"The White Goddess," lines 18–22, from Poems and Satires (1951).
Poems
Context: But we are gifted, even in November,
Rawest of seasons, with so huge a sense
Of her nakedly worn magnificence
We forget cruelty and past betrayal,
Heedless of where the next bright bolt may fall.
Hunter S. Thompson (1937–2005) American journalist and author
"The Big Finale Was a Big Disappointment" (6 April 2004)
2000s
“In this bright future you can't forget your past.”
Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician
Angela Merkel (1954) Chancellor of Germany
Angela Merkel's speech about Holocaust (Shoah). <br class="br">Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 24.04.2017 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6jEkBPcVj4 <br class="br">2017
Bernard Lown (1921–2021) American cardiologist developer of the DC defibrillator and the cardioverter, as well as a recipient of the…
Nobel Peace Prize acceptance (1985)
Context: Alfred Nobel believed that the destructiveness of dynamite would put an end to war. He deeply believed that the tragic reality of mass carnage would achieve results which all the preaching of peace and goodwill had so far failed to achieve. His prophecy now must gain fulfillment. Recoiling from the abyss of nuclear extermination, the human family will finally abandon war. May we learn from barbaric and bloody deeds of the twentieth century and bestow the gift of peace to the next millennium. Perhaps in that way we shall redeem some measure of respect from generations yet to come. Having achieved peace, in the sonorous phrase of Martin Luther King, Jr. spoken here twenty-one years ago, human beings will then "rise to the majestic heights of moral maturity".
