Eileen Myles in "Fear of Poetry" in The Nation: Muriel Rukeyser unspools one of the most passionate arguments I've ever read for the notion that art creates meeting pla

Muriel Rukeyser unspools one of the most passionate arguments I've ever read for — Eileen Myles in "Fear of Poetry" in The Nation

Muriel Rukeyser unspools one of the most passionate arguments I've ever read for the notion that art creates meeting places, that poetry creates democracy .

Eileen Myles in "Fear of Poetry" in The Nation

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While our art cannot, as we wish it could, save us from wars , privation, envy , — Ray Bradbury in his Preface to Zen in the Art of Writing
Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the — Leo Tolstoy
One is never satisfied with a portrait of a person that one knows. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Scientific pictures are often not just about science. They may... have an undeni — John D. Barrow
Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. — Daniel Webster
One is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always loses his temper wh — Oscar Wilde
For a moment hope, bright and cruel as a knife, presented itself to me. It took — C. L. Anderson
God is not dumb, that he should speak no more; If thou hast wanderings in the wi — James Russell Lowell
Lo! with a little rod I did but touch the honey of romance — And must I lose a s — Oscar Wilde
I know that my unity with all people cannot be destroyed by national boundaries — Leo Tolstoy
To follow the path of knowledge is to tread on the edge of a sword . Once you ge — Tulsidas
Self-love is a balloon filled with wind, from which tempests emerge when pricked — Voltaire