Christian Michel (of the Libertarian Alliance-UK) recently exposed me to a wonderful poem that complements Mises’s motto, Tu Ne Cede Malis (Virgil’s “do not give in to evil but proceed ever more boldly against it”). The poem is “Grass” (1974), by Bulgarian poetess Blaga Dimitrova, and ought to be inspiring to libertarians in our never-ceasing fight against the state:
I’m not afraid
they’ll stamp me flat.
Grass stamped flat
soon becomes a path.
(The poem is quoted on p. 146 of The Columbia Guide to the Literatures of Eastern Europe Since 1945.)
4:07 pm on December 30, 2008
