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the poet and the activist...

Post by Whitebird Sings » May 15th, 2005, 11:31 am

Shelley wrote:

The great secret of morals is love, or a going out of our own nature, and an identification of ourselves with the beautiful which exists in thought, action, or person not our own. A person to be greatly good must imagine intensely and comprehensively; they must put themself in the place of another and of many others. The great instrument of moral good is the imagination and poetry enlarges the circumference of the imagination by replenishing it with thoughts of ever new delight which have the power of attracting and assimilating to their own nature all others thoughts and which form new intervals and interstices whose void forever craves fresh food.

...poets and activists -- putting themselves in the skin of the other -- imagining what it is to be someone else somewhere else... intensely and comprehensively... and in this way experiencing the pain of the other... but also imagining so that there is hope!

> Please search out the work of Eric Reeves who articulates these ideas so beautifully. He is a wondrous human being -- an American academic -- who fights tirelessly for the people of Sudan... without remuneration... because he knows in his heart that it is the right thing to do... the only thing to do... his heart is the heart of a poet, an activist... and oh yes, a teacher...

http://sudanreeves.org

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