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Carl Sagan on the Enchantment of Chemistry, with Stunning Illustrations by Artist Vivian Torrence
“We too are made of starstuff.”
Ursula K. Le Guin on Art, Storytelling, and the Power of Language to Transform and Redeem
“One of the functions of art is to give people the words to know their own experience… Storytelling is a tool for knowing who we are and what we want.”
The 7 Loveliest Children’s Books of 2017
Profound and poetic illustrated celebrations of solitude, self-possession, friendship, and our place in the cosmos.
How We Bridge the Real and the Ideal: Frederick Douglass on Art as a Tool of Constructive Self-Criticism and a Force of Cultural Progress
“The process by which man is able to posit his own subjective nature outside of himself … is at [the] bottom of all effort and the germinating principles of all reform and all progress.”
The Topography of Tears: A Stunning Aerial Tour of the Landscape of Human Emotion Through an Optical Microscope
From Blake to biochemistry, “proof that we cannot put our feelings in one place and our thoughts in another.”
Zadie Smith on Optimism and Despair
“Progress is never permanent, will always be threatened, must be redoubled, restated and reimagined if it is to survive.”
Walt Whitman on the Splendor of Winter Beaches and How Art Imbues Life’s Bleakest Moments with Beauty
“This winter day — grim, yet so delicate-looking, so spiritual — striking emotional, impalpable depths, subtler than all the poems, paintings, music…”
Poetry and the Revolution of Being: Jane Hirshfield on How Great Art Transforms Us
“Why ask art into a life at all, if not to be transformed and enlarged by its presence and mysterious means?… And by changing selves, one by one, art changes also the outer world that selves create and share.”
The Paper-Flower Tree: An Illustrated Ode to the Courage of Withstanding Cynicism and the Generative Power of the Affectionate Imagination
A lovely reminder that we perceive the world not as it is but as we are.
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