The Dyer's Hand and Other Essays
- Kind
- Book
- Date
- 1989-12
- Publisher
- Vintage Books/Random House
- Retrieved
- Sep 14, 2011
- ISBN
- 0375404910
- EAN
- 9780679724841
2 memes from this reference
Science Cannot be Celebrated With Poetry
The true men of action in our time, those who transform the world, are not the politicians and statesmen, but the scientists. Unfortunately poetry cannot celebrate them because their deeds are concerned with things, not persons, and are, therefore, speechless. When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel…
Science VS Art
The subject matter of the scientist is a crowd of natural events at all times; he presupposes that this crowd is not real but apparent, and seeks to discover the true place of events in the system of nature. The subject matter of the poet is a crowd of historical occasions of feeling recollected from the past; he…