“Art serves us best precisely at that point where it can shift our sense of what is possible, when we know more than we knew before, when we feel we have — by some manner of a leap — encountered the truth. That, by the logic of art, is always worth the pain.”
T.S. Eliot
Yet another compelling take on creating and absorbing art, from one of my favorite poets and thinkers.
There was a time when I thought all he did was write about cats and growing old with mermaids singing each to each.
Not that this would have been a bad thing.
Muttering Retreats 