rights advocates, like poets, "are to be distinguished from mere dreamers because they are 'Those whom the miseries of the world/Are misery and will not let them rest'."While acknowledging "a Molotov cocktail provides more immediate and potent resistance to the invaders of your nations or your peoples than a lyric about its landscapes", his quote from Primo Levi's poem Shema , he said, expressed the "need for human solidarity": "'Consider whether this be a man/Who labours in the mud/Who knows no peace/Who fights for a crust of bread/Who dies at a yes or a no."
from The Irish Times: Activists are like poets, Heaney says in rights lecture
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