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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=415026" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Brief for the Defense</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sorrow everywhere. Slaughter everywhere. If babies<br>are not starving someplace, they are starving<br>somewhere else. With flies in their nostrils.<br>But we enjoy our lives because that's what God wants.<br>Otherwise the mornings before summer dawn would not<br>be made so fine. The Bengal tiger would not<br>be fashioned so miraculously well. The poor women<br>at the fountain are laughing together between<br>the suffering they have known and the awfulness<br>in their future, smiling and laughing while somebody<br>in the village is very sick. There is laughter<br>every day in the terrible streets of Calcutta,<br>and the women laugh in the cages of Bombay.<br>If we deny our happiness, resist our satisfaction,<br>we lessen the importance of their deprivation.<br>We must risk delight. We can do without pleasure,<br>but not delight. Not enjoyment. We must have<br>the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless<br>furnace of this world. To make injustice the only<br>measure of our attention is to praise the Devil.<br>If the locomotive of the Lord runs us down,<br>we should give thanks that the end had magnitude.<br>We must admit there will be music despite everything.<br>We stand at the prow again of a small ship<br>anchored late at night in the tiny port<br>looking over to the sleeping island: the waterfront<br>is three shuttered cafés and one naked light burning.<br>To hear the faint sound of oars in the silence as a rowboat<br>comes slowly out and then goes back is truly worth<br>all the years of sorrow that are to come.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Jack+Gilbert">Jack Gilbert</a><div class=q>
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