“What is vital and healthy does not necessarily survive . . . [a]n art, a whole civilization, may at any time slip through men’s fingers in a very few years and be gone beyond recovery. If we are alive when… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Evolution tells us how to survive; art tells us how it's possible still to live even while knowing that we and all we love will someday vanish. It says there's beauty even in grief, freedom even inside the strictures of… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
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