Grass stamped flat soon becomes a path

by Stephan Kinsella on July 7, 2009

in Culture

The temptation to despair is high for realistic libertarians. It seems ever more difficult to achieve the society we strive for. But a comrade passed on to me some inspiring words from Blaga Dimitrova, a Bulgarian poet:

I’m not afraid
they’ll stamp me flat.
Grass stamped flat
soon becomes a path.

–Blaga Dimitrova, “Grass,” quoted in Harold B. Segel, The Columbia Guide to the Literatures of Eastern Europe Since 1945 (New York: Columbia University Press, 2003 [1974]), p. 146.

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Geoffrey Allan Plauche July 8, 2009 at 12:22 am

[Censored; but the gist is: Stephan, I love all your works and all you do.]

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