William Faulkner’s Beautiful Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech About How Artists Help Us Live – The Marginalian
“The poet’s, the writer’s, duty is … to help man endure by lifting his heart.”| The Marginalian
“The poet’s, the writer’s, duty is … to help man endure by lifting his heart.”| The Marginalian
“Science is a tribute to what we can know although we are fallible… We have to cure ourselves of the itch for absolute knowledge and power.”| The Marginalian
“Life and Reality are not things you can have for yourself unless you accord them to all others.”| The Marginalian
“The moral challenge and the grim problem we face is that the life of affluence and pleasure requires exact discipline and high imagination.”| The Marginalian
“In all the activities of life, from the simplest physical activities to the highest intellectual and spiritual activities, our whole effort must be to get out of our own light.”| The Marginalian
A heartening perspective on mortality by way of the physics of the cosmos and the poetics of the night-blooming cereus cactus.| The Marginalian
