Saul Bellow (June 10, 1915 – April 05, 2005) Only art penetrates … the seeming realities of this world. There is another reality, the genuine one, which we lose sight of. This other reality is always sending us hints, which without art, we can’t receive.
Evelyn Fox Keller On Inner Experiences
Evelyn Fox Keller (March 20, 1936 -) I can imagine a world…in which persons with highly developed inner worlds became the exception rather than the rule we used to think them to be.
Bruce Hood On The Self and Freewill
Bruce Hood We know the self is constructed because it can be so easily deconstructed – through damage, disease, and drugs. It must be an emergent property of a parallel system processing input, output, and internal representations. It’s an illusion because it feels so real, but that experience is not what it seems. The same …
Sam Killmeyer On Inheritance
Sam Killmeyer I’ve been thinking about inheritance and what has made me who I am. Not just family inheritance, but cultural inheritance. As I follow the current news cycle, I’m thinking about how we can respond to power as poets. Art is always the first thing to be suppressed by authoritative regimes. Why? Because art …
CK Williams On Poetry
CK Williams (November 4, 1936 – September 20, 2015) I don’t have to spend so much time mastering my craft, because I pretty much have that under control. But it’s still hard to find the right inspiration and the right voice and the right music to embody the inspiration. That’s the primary business of the …
Countess Constance Markievicz On Equality
Countess Constance Markievicz (February 04, 1868 – July 15, 1927) I would work for it anywhere, as one of the crying wrongs of the world, that women, because of their sex, should be debarred from any position or any right that their brains entitle them a right to hold.
Vincent van Gogh On Change
Vincent van Gogh (March 30, 1853–July 29, 1890) What has changed is that my life was less difficult then and my future less dark, but as far as my inner self, as far as my way of seeing and thinking are concerned, they haven’t changed. But if in fact there were a change, it’s that …
