“From the Gods Who Sit in Grandeur/Grace Comes Somehow Violent.”

“From the Gods Who Sit in Grandeur/Grace Comes Somehow Violent.”

Zeus, who guided men to think, who has laid it down that wisdom comes alone through suffering. Still there drips in sleep against the heart grief of memory; against our pleasure we are temperate. From the gods who sit in grandeur grace comes somehow violent. – Aeschylus, “Agamemnon,” translated by Richard Lattimore I’ve remembered the last two lines of this …

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