As symbol, or as the structuring of symbols, art can render intelligible
-- or at least visible, at least discussible -- those wilderness regions
which philosophy has abandoned and those hazardous terrains where science's
tools do not fit. I mean the rim of knowledge where language falters; and I
mean all those areas of human experience, feeling, and thought about which
we care so much and know so little: the meaning of all we see before us, of
our love for each other, and the forms of freedom in time, and power,
and destiny, and all whereof we imagine: grace, perfection, beauty, and
the passage of all materials to thoughts, and of all ideas to forms.
Annie
Dillard
2 comments:
Looking up at the sky, day or night, is so often an awe-inspiring :-)
What a lovely reading, quite inspiring.
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