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COURAGE, now, think again

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    COURAGE, now, think again

    By Sophie Cabot Black | Uncategorized | 0 comment | 9 September, 2018 | 0

    Courage….is demanded of us by the very nature of the public realm. It requires courage in the political sense to step out…not because of particular dangers that may lie in wait for us there, but because we have arrived in a realm where care for life has lost its validity. Courage liberates men from their care for life for the sake of the freedom of the world. Courage is required because in politics the primary care is never for life itself, but always for the world, which will outlast all of us, in one form or another.

    –Hannah Arendt, Freedom and Politics, a Lecture

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    Poet, activist, sometime farmer, sometime teacher, Sophie Cabot Black is the author of four collections: Geometry of the Restless Herd, The Misunderstanding of Nature, The Descent, and The Exchange. NPR called her “the poet’s poet”, her work was a “hot pick” on CNBC’s Topic A with Tina Brown, and from time to time can be seen in the pages of The New Yorker. She has won several awards and prizes, and currently divides her time between New England and New York City.

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