"Poets, he said, had a sacred calling. They must not allow the oppressed to remain voiceless, the crimes of the oppressor to go unnamed or memory to be obliterated. They must, like the prophets of old, feel the blast from heaven, rage against the night, conquer, as Abrham Heschel wrote, “callousness, to change the inner person as well as to revolutionize history.”"' Chris Hedges on Gerald Stern. https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/death-of-an-oracle?
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