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"We nonviolently oppose the reliance on unilateral military actions rather than cooperative diplomacy."
TRIBUTE TO JAMES WRIGHT FOLEY
August 21, 2014
In the face of the all-too-human horror of the journalist James Wright Foley's death this week at the hands of an Islamic State executioner, we are at a loss for words. Yet something must be said. We find that something in the words of one of the most original poets of her time, Marianne Moore (1887-1972).
WHAT ARE YEARS? By Marianne Moore What is our innocence, what is our guilt? All are naked, none is safe. And whence is courage: the unanswered question, the resolute doubt — dumbly calling, deafly listening — that in misfortune, even death, encourages others and in its defeat, stirs
the soul to be strong? He sees deep and is glad, who accedes to mortality and in his imprisonment rises upon himself as the sea in a chasm, struggling to be free and unable to be, in its surrendering finds its continuing.
So he who strongly feels, behaves. The very bird, grown taller as he sings, steels his form straight up. Though he is captive, his mighty singing says, satisfaction is a lowly thing, how pure a thing is joy. This is mortality, this is eternity.
UNITED FOR PEACE OF PIERCE COUNTY
"We nonviolently oppose the reliance on unilateral military actions rather than cooperative diplomacy."
UFPPC statement: Tribute to James Wright Foley
UNITED FOR PEACE OF PIERCE COUNTY
"We nonviolently oppose the reliance on unilateral military actions rather than cooperative diplomacy."
TRIBUTE TO JAMES WRIGHT FOLEY
August 21, 2014
In the face of the all-too-human horror of the journalist James Wright Foley's death this week at the hands of an Islamic State executioner, we are at a loss for words. Yet something must be said. We find that something in the words of one of the most original poets of her time, Marianne Moore (1887-1972).
WHAT ARE YEARS?By Marianne Moore
What is our innocence,
what is our guilt? All are
naked, none is safe. And whence
is courage: the unanswered question,
the resolute doubt —
dumbly calling, deafly listening — that
in misfortune, even death,
encourages others
and in its defeat, stirs
the soul to be strong? He
sees deep and is glad, who
accedes to mortality
and in his imprisonment rises
upon himself as
the sea in a chasm, struggling to be
free and unable to be,
in its surrendering
finds its continuing.
So he who strongly feels,
behaves. The very bird,
grown taller as he sings, steels
his form straight up. Though he is captive,
his mighty singing
says, satisfaction is a lowly
thing, how pure a thing is joy.
This is mortality,
this is eternity.
UNITED FOR PEACE OF PIERCE COUNTY
"We nonviolently oppose the reliance on unilateral military actions rather than cooperative diplomacy."