Bruce Kuklick writes in the July/August 2004 issue of Books&Culture:
My favorite recent expression of the emotional pain that brings about a measure of humility is the maturation of Robert Kennedy. After the murder of his brother the president in 1963, Robert Kennedy was desperate to understand why his family should have been made to suffer. He took to reading the Greek tragedies, and used as a mantra his own rendering of a translation from Aeschylus' Agamemnon. As Kennedy put it, "in our sleep, pain which we cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God."
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